The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
~By James Gunn ~
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
~By Stephen Covey ~
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.
~By Richard Benjamin ~
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
~By Alma Gluck ~
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 ~
I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.
~By Will Friedle ~
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
~By James D'arcy ~
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
~By Bill Griffith ~
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
~By Liam Neeson ~
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
~By Edward Young ~
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
~By Ken Follett ~
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
~By William James ~
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
~By Billy Graham ~
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
~By George H. Mead ~
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
~By John Lasseter ~
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
~By Aristophanes ~
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.
~By Eugene Levy ~
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
~By Alan Dundes ~
You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
~By David R. Ellis ~
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
~By Nora Roberts ~
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
~By Jason Biggs ~
I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.
~By Josh Holloway ~
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 ~
Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
~By Tim Buckley ~
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
~By Claire Danes ~
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
~By Jenna Elfman ~
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
~By Brion James ~
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
~By Trish Stratus ~
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
~By Harry Hamlin ~
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
~By Darrell Royal ~
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
~By Robert Trout ~
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
~By Sean Connery ~
I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
~By Janet Suzman ~
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
~By George Clooney ~
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
~By Camille Claudel ~
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
~By Margot Asquith ~
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
~By Faith Baldwin ~
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~By Helen Keller ~
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~By George Washington ~
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
~By Paula Danziger ~
I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
~By Donna Mills ~
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
~By Julien Green ~
Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.
~By Don Mattingly ~
European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
~By Kit Williams ~
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
~By Joan Van Ark ~
I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.
~By Rue McClanahan ~
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
~By Ovid ~
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
~By Jane Haddam ~
When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
~By Ashley Judd ~
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
~By Frances McDormand ~
Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
~By Norman Jewison ~
I was always inventing characters and making up stories.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
~By Emmett Kelly ~
I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.
~By Andrea Martin ~
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