It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
~By Emmet Fox ~
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
~By Jean Paul ~
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
~By Balthazar Getty ~
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
~By John Wooden ~
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
~By Len Wein ~
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
~By Yves Klein ~
You have to play the logic of a character.
~By Emily Watson ~
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
~By Laura Innes ~
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
~By Frederick Scott Oliver ~
I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
~By Natasha Richardson ~
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
~By Clarence Day ~
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
~By Fritz Sauckel ~
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
~By Barney Frank ~
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
~By Ferdinand Mount ~
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
~By Arthur Herzog ~
I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.
~By Catherine Keener ~
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
~By Robert Englund ~
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.
~By Brion James ~
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity.
~By James Lafferty ~
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
~By Joe Morton ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.
~By Ruth Park ~
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
~By Emily Watson ~
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
~By Alanna Ubach ~
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
~By David Selby ~
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.
~By J. S. Habgood ~
Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.
~By Richard Masur ~
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
~By L. Sprague de Camp ~
I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
~By Henry Winkler ~
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
~By Tea Leoni ~
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
~By Dick Wolf ~
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
~By Victoria Abril ~
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
~By Euripides ~
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
~By Dean Inge ~
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
~By Javier Bardem ~
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
~By Julie Benz ~
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
~By Aaron Eckhart ~
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
~By Thomas Chandler Haliburton ~
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.
~By Christian Bale ~
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
~By Robert Ryan ~
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
~By Garth Ennis ~
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
~By James K. Polk ~
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
~By Martin Henderson ~
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
~By James D. Watson ~
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
~By Geena Davis ~
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
~By Richard Hofstadter ~
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
~By Julie Bishop ~
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
~By Taylor Dane ~
I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.
~By Michael Shanks ~
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
~By Augustus Hare ~
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
~By Luke Scott ~
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
~By Edward Sapir ~
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
~By George P. Baker ~
I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
~By Sean Bean ~
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
~By Aristophanes ~
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
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