Character Quotes - Page 32

• Times will change for the better when you change.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Work, Life Changing

  23 Copy quote

• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  314 Copy quote

• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Thinking, Giving, Political

  24 Copy quote

• I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Shapes, Electronics

  8 Copy quote

• Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faces, Facts, Impression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.20, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  Bob Woodward

  Scandal, Complicated, Novel

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

  David Levithan

  Writing, Plot, Stories

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.181, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

  Dick Wolf

  Heart, House, Soul

  6 Copy quote

• I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'

  Donnie Yen

  Men, Dragons, Research

  "Donnie Yen Exclusive Interview: Discussing ‘Dragon’ And The Censored Ending Audiences May Never See". Interview with Chris C. Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.

  Donnie Yen

  Thinking, Flying, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

  Donnie Yen

  Jobs, Play, Guy

  4 Copy quote

• Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Talking, Trying

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yuki: What could I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear! He's a character in a horror film!
  Kyo: So what if I didn't know? Like I'd waste my time watching some dumb movie about a bear!
  Yuki: You truly are an idiot...

  Natsuki Takaya

  Stupid, Cat, What If

  "Fruits Basket". Animation, Comedy, Drama, www.imdb.com. (2001 - ).

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Passion, Thinking, People

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

  Loretta Young

  Fashion, Should, Expected

  22 Copy quote

• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Elysium, Robots

  4 Copy quote

• I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

  Brigham Young

  Thinking, People, Earth

  17 Copy quote

• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Offering, Agony

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

  Stendhal

  Men, Tears, Fool

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

  David O. McKay

  Noble, Development, Godlike

  11 Copy quote

• I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

  Felicia Day

  Girl, Thinking, Creating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

  Felicia Day

  Jobs, Creating, Challenges

  Interview with A.J. Sheeran, www.avclub.com. October 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency

  George Washington

  Christian, Independent, Men

  George Washington (2011). “Washington's Political Legacies: With a Biographical Outline of His Life and Character”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Light, Want

  4 Copy quote

• The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

  Romola Garai

  Judging, Way, Worst

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source