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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Real, Character, Mask

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Character, Men

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• Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Real, Character, Trying

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Pride

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.131

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• It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Heart, Character

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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• The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Real, Character

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.221

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• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Real, Character, Men

  Maria Edgeworth “Castle Rackrent”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

  Judd Apatow

  Real, Character, Two

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Motivation, Real, Character

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.52, Sophia Institute Press

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• All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

  Joe Johnston

  Real, Character, Black And White

  "'Captain America' director: 'This movie is going to surprise some people'". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

  James E. Faust

  Real, Character, Soul

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• I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

  Adepero Oduye

  Real, Character, Stories

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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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• 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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• In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Heart, Character

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• [Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.

  Tommy Chong

  Real, Liars, Character

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.

  Andy Serkis

  Real, Character, Research

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

  Radhanath Swami

  Determination, Real, Character

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• Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.

  Charles Negre

  Real, Character, Giving

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• I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece. Each actor was serviced in the movie, and we tried to do that in this movie as well. I like the fact that there was a European, first-time director. I'd known of him because I'm from Europe. I knew him as a commercial director and thought one of his commercials was great. I thought it was an interesting take on such a big-budget cult classic.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Real, Character, Europe

  Source: collider.com

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