Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.
I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame
Business is about making money but it is also about having fun, so get your character across.
People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.
In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.
The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.
Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.
I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.
It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.
The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.
It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
New York has their own character. I love the fans here. They are very honest, and I love that.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.
Setbacks are what build character. They are what separate the lucky from the truly successful.
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.