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Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.
Derek Jeter
Character
You
Person
Your
Image
Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.
Diana Gabaldon
Character
Eyes
Job
Seen
Become
Before
Transformation
Astonishing
Claire
Fact
Sam
In Fact
Jamie
Act
Actor
Right
I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.
Doug Jones
Life
Character
Natural
Emotions
Real Life
Lover
Think
Way
Darker
Something
Potential
Real
Tap
Very
Person
Human
Human Beings
Mankind
Happy-Go-Lucky
Natural Way
Beings
Found
Play
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson
Saying
Good
Great
Character
You
Quality
People
Great Deal
Circumstance
Tells
About
Only
Content
Deal
How
Dialect
Dialogue
Communicating
Found
Tone
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones
Life
Character
Christ
Think
Add
Virtue
Ideal
Longer
Supreme
Stood
Human
Human Life
Standard
Code
Hence
Thing
Jesus
Jesus Christ
By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.
Ellen G. White
Life
Character
Soul
Grace
Christ
Shine
Live
Restored
Through
Divine
Attributes
Begins
Loveliness
Formed
Forth
Original
Image
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus
Character
You
Yourself
Personality
Example
Imagination
Follow
Determine
Well
Private
Model
Public
Whose
Imagine
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer
Great
Character
Spiritual
Man
Result
Power
Other
Others
Gifts
Great Man
Qualities
Because
However
His
Influence
Mean
Who
Deserves
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
James K. Polk
Government
Character
Our
Seem
True
True Character
Powers
Foreign
Foreign Powers
Appreciate
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
Good
Character
Duty
Luck
Good Luck
Willing
Observance
Handmaid
Upright
Energetic
Conscientious
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
Character
Impossible
Unless
Pretence
Sincerity
Very
Being
Whole
Foundation
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
Joan Cusack
Work
Good
Character
You
Better
Side
Kid
Out
Bad
Clarity
See
Able
About
Parent
Potential
Shape
Make
Learn
How
Child
Human
Want
Human Beings
Them
Fulfill
Your
Your Child
Figure
Good Character
Who
Beings
As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.
John Singleton
Character
You
Somebody
Energy
See
Feel
Envisioned
Storyteller
Room
Who
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
Jules Verne
Future
Character
Mind
Value
Past
Doubt
Changes
Once
Dread
Entrance
Performed
Forget
Forget The Past
Gain
Less
Deeds
Grow
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
Kenneth Lonergan
Character
Become
Adult
Flaw
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger
Character
Integrity
Reward
Own
Worry
About
More
Self-Esteem
Much
Your
When it's a real person, you want to be as honest as you can and approach it in a similar way as you would any other character, but with that restriction and wanting to respect the boundaries of that person and not be intrusive in any way.
Lucy Boynton
Character
You
Respect
Other
Approach
Way
Would
Intrusive
Similar
Restriction
Boundaries
Real
Person
Real Person
Any
Want
Wanting
Honest
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature
Character
Live
Our
Nurtured
Those
Circumstances
Habits
Which
Forms
Race
Much
Product
Heredity
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn Monroe
Character
Me
Dangerous
Sometimes
Men
Party
Corner
Would
Give
Give Me
No-One
Spoke
Wives
Been
Up
Discuss
Frightened
Ladies
Where
Gang
Whole
Evening
Wide
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant
Character
Enormous
Underneath
Flabby
Lack
Exterior
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Oswald Chambers
Character
Christ
Disposition
Saint
Manifested
Means
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
Robert Baden-Powell
Character
Quality
Writing
Training
Important
Reading
More
Arithmetic
Particular
Schools
Erudition
Authorized
Taught
Where
Children
Nowhere
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell
Character
Training
Responsibility
Individual
Step
Put
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
Character
Wish
Cowardly
Resolve
Complaint
Despised
Possess
Firmness
Always
Exertion
Enduring
Whining
Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.
Shelley Moore Capito
Time
Character
You
Strong
Be Nice
Be Strong
Nice
Weak
More
Trait
Same
Same Time
Being
Mean
Being Nice
Washington
Necessarily
Need
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Solon
Character
Trust
Oath
More
Put
Nobility
Than
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