Real Character Quotes - Page 2

• Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Real, Character, Soul

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• When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Real, Inspiration, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Character, Safe

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• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

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• Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Character, Adversity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.

  Edi Gathegi

  Falling In Love, Real, Character

  "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

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• In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Character, Personality

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

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, Real, Tired

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

  Joshua Reynolds

  Real, Character, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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