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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.
For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character.
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.
I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.
If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.
You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.
My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.
There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.