Real Character Quotes

• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Integrity

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Character, Sisterhood

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, Real, Tired

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• You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

  John Hartford

  Real, Character, Matter

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• MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

  Loretta Swit

  Real, Humor, Character

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• What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's not a fully formed character like James Bond, so what we're doing is following the journey of this guy from a child who goes through this horrible experience of becoming this extraordinary character. That, for me, became a three-part story. And obviously the third part becomes the ending of the guy's story.

  Christopher Nolan

  Children, Real, Character

  "Christopher Nolan Says He Was "Nervous" to Include Catwoman in DARK KNIGHT RISES; Christian Bale Talks About the Franchise" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

  Juliette Lewis

  Girl, Real, Character

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• At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

  Frank Cady

  Real, Character, Play

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• Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

  Ellen Muth

  Funny, Real, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Real, Character, Men

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• The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Real, Character, Men

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• When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

  Alice Cooper

  Powerful, Real, Believe

  Interview with Donald L. Hughes, April 22, 2006.

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• The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.

  Robert Cormier

  Mother, Religious, Brother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

  Michael Gambon

  Real, Character, Play

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

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• If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Character, Effort

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• Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

  Napoleon Hill

  Real, Character, Men

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.290, Penguin

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Hate, Real

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• Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Character, People

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

  Alexander Smith

  Real, Character, Men

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.92

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• I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

  Sandra Brown

  Real, Book, Character

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• You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

  Hank Azaria

  Motivation, Real, Character

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• The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

  Fran Kranz

  Real, Character, People

  "Fran Kranz Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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