Real Character Quotes - Page 3

• On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Hypocrite

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• More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Knowledge, Character

  The Rambler no. 60 (13 Oct. 1750)

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• What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

  Joseph Barbera

  Stars, Real, Character

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

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• I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

  Shigesato Itoi

  Real, Character, Player

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• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  Plutarch

  Real, Character, Men

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• I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

  Carol S. Dweck

  Real, Team, Believe

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.97, Random House

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• There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Secret

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• I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

  David O. Russell

  Hate, Real, Character

  "The Fighter: David O. Russell Interview". Interview with Tom Butler, www.ign.com. February 8, 2011.

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• I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

  Lou Reed

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed" by Anthony DeCurtis, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2017.

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• There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Real, Character, Play

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.

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• The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Character, History

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.

  Virginia Madsen

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Silver is purified in fire and so are we.  It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

  Helen Keller

  Real, Character, Fire

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• The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Real, Character, Mean

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.204, Library of America

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• Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Real, Character

  EDNA FERBER (1958). “SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON”

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• It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

  John Ratzenberger

  Cheer, Real, Book

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Real, Character, Play

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• In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Real, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.79, Bantam Classics

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• That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

  Darius McCrary

  Real, Character, Play

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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