A person who remains attached to his roots with his foot always on the ground grows like a green tree that bears the best fruit.

Selfishness even binds many people,but blindly without having any liking for one another.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.

You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

I don’t believe you can get into somebody’s character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things...

How he could be a good user of LSD,” I asked, “And know about the spiritual dimension – all that sort of thing – and still be a crook? I don’t understand.””Then it’s time you...

The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I do love editorials – you’re free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

Für den neuen Herrn, der die Zügel des Betriebes in seine feste Hand genommen hatte, mußten doch ohne weiteres neue Unternehmungen eintreten, die Erfolge warteten auf ihn, die Ereignisse hatten sich seiner Persönlichkeit anzupassen!…

Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, … He really wanted this very sort of volatile force at this well-established firm on ‘The Practice’ … to stir things up.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

It’s all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn’t necessary to live a tragic life to create from...

I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations. I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since...

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

A person’s true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence. For most, time gives clarity, but for others, these questions remained...

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I am a tree, though I’m not a shady character. I’m like a tree in winter.

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I’m playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That’s really what intrigued me as...

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

[Foley dedicated his book to his father and also included his father as a character in the book. He joked that when the lead character] Scooter … the picture of Foley’s chubby kid…well, that’s me.

It’s strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

We don’t have no say, ‘cause we was an afterthought. He yanked us up out o’ man’s ribs, but He made man out the Earth. He made him out the dirt and the mud and...

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright...

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don’t want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it...

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands...

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn’t ever quit.

She’s a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

It’s an important day. It helps to evaluate a kid’s character, how he feels about us. We show them the facilities and talk about academics. It’s more to educate them on what we have to...

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

It looked awful, it had been stripped of all its character.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which...

The focus is on character, so if there’s something out there, it’s going to come to light pretty quickly. In this climate with all of the info and misinformation out there all you want to...

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.