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The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
I've never seen 'Game of Thrones.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I can't tell you one character outside of Walter White.
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.
The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.
I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.
Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?
Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.
I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.
Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.
From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.
I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.
I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.