Character Quotes - Page 22

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

I’m so thankful to have been born in the times that we live in. I felt a responsibility to Simon [Halls] and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public. That trumped any type of professional repercussions that it could have had. And – not by my own volition or choice – I’ve been playing exclusively straight characters for the first 10 years of my career. Whatever happens from this point on says a lot more about the business and society than it does about me.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

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.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.