Character Quotes - Page 77

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.

I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

Have character, but don't be a character.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards.

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.