Character famous quotes

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
-- Archie Panjabi

#Character #Wife #One Day

I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
-- Ari Graynor

#Crazy #Character #Careers

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.
-- Ariel Durant

#Character #Destiny #Personality

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
-- Ariel Durant

#Character #Technology #Opportunity

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.
-- Ariel Winter

#Character #Play #Trying

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
-- Aristotle

#Inspiration #Character #Emotion

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Giving #Quality

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
-- Aristotle

#Music #Passion #Character

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Soul #Theatre

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Sea #Noble

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Self #Support

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
-- Aristotle

#Philosophical #Character #Mean

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle

#Character #People #Vices

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Men #Class

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
-- Aristotle

#Fall #Character #Honor

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Anxiety #Political

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
-- Aristotle

#Character #People #Action

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
-- Aristotle

#Motivation #Character #Men

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Plot #Action

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Should #Young

We are what we frequently do.
-- Aristotle

#Character

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Men #Differences

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Play #Together

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Purpose #Virtue

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
-- Aristotle

#Character #May #Sovereign

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Mean #Three

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Mean #Men

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Choices #Determined

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Men #Self

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Two #Soul

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
-- Aristotle

#Character #Causes #Facts

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Jobs #Character #Roles

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.
-- Armie Hammer

#Character #Guy #Different

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
-- Arnold Bennett

#Character #Taste

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Teamwork #Character #Golf

From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Father #Character #Golf

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Character #Golf #Trying

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others
-- Aron Ralston

#Character #Essence #Tragedy

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Soccer #Real #Character

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
-- Arthur Ashe

#Leadership #Basketball #Character

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
-- Arthur B. Robinson

#Book #Character #People

Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?
-- Arthur Carhart

#Character #America #People

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Children #Real #Character

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Silly #Character #Strange

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Book #Character #Would Be

The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Children #Real #Character

Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.
-- Arthur Evans

#Real #Character #School

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
-- Arthur Freed

#Character #Trying #Different

A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
-- Arthur Helps

#Character #Errors #Feelings

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
-- Arthur Helps

#Character #World #Concern

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
-- Arthur Helps

#Character #May #Action

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
-- Arthur Helps

#Character #Men #Advice

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
-- Arthur Helps

#Character #Men #Opinion

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
-- Arthur Lowe

#Art #Character #Play

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.
-- Arthur Miller

#Dog #Fall #Character

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.
-- Arthur Miller

#Character #Thinking #Feelings

Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline.
-- Arthur S. Adams

#Wise #Character #Self

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Inspirational #Character #Men

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Character #Animal #Men

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Dream #Character #Dreamer

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Character #Tragedy #Gone

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Philosophical #Character #Men

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Character #Men #Way

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Character #Men #Personality

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Philosophy #Teaching #Character

When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.
-- Artie Lange

#Crazy #Character #Voice

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
-- Aryn Kyle

#Character #Important #World

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.
-- Asa Butterfield

#Character #Thinking #Interesting

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.
-- Asger Jorn

#Beautiful #Real #Character

It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Mistake #Smart #Character

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.
-- Ashley Greene

#Character #Done #Comedy

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
-- Ashley Judd

#Character #Eye #Doors

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
-- Ashley Judd

#Hurt #Character #Thinking

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Character #Creating #Looks

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.
-- Ashley Rickards

#Character #Thinking #Liberty

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.
-- Ashley Rickards

#Character #Jeans #Tree

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
-- Ashley Scott

#Character #Preparation #Pages

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Character #Sassy #People

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Character

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Mean Girls #Fun #Character

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Real #Character #Trying

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Character #Judging #Judging Others

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Stupid #Character #Thinking

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Character #Thinking #Play

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Believe #Character #Ideas

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
-- Ashwin Sanghi

#Character #Thinking #People

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
-- Asvaghosa

#Character #Mean #Practice

But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.
-- Athenagoras of Athens

#Christian #Character #Historical

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Writing #Character #Mind

In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.
-- Atticus Shaffer

#Character #Voice #Perfect

The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.
-- Aubrey Plaza

#Smart #Character #Interesting

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.
-- Aubrey Plaza

#Character #Play #Draws

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
-- Aubrey Plaza

#Real #Character #Special

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.
-- Audrey Tautou

#Strong #Character #Love Is

At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.
-- Audrina Patridge

#Character #Different #Watches

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
-- August Strindberg

#Character #Men #Simple

When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
-- August Wilson

#Art #Writing #Character

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
-- August Wilson

#Character #Play #Piano

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Photography #Character #Artist

A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character... the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.
-- Auguste Rodin

#Art #Character #Eye