Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.

The high reputation of Westminster abroad is not entirely reflected at home.

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.

A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got.

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome leading men and character actors for smaller supporting roles. But I was told to hang in there, and it was good advice. We're all character actors now. Even a handsome man is a character actor at my age.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in my mind for that character. I can't even explain how much it helps me.

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.

There's a pressure to be the wrestler that you are, that character that you've created 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It's tough for wrestlers sometimes to sort of have that separation between person and character.

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist

Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six months or four months or whatever, and that gets very deep in your blood. When you do a TV character for seven years, that's a long time. It becomes a seminal era in your life.

I never agree to do a character that molests a woman. I have been very conscious not to do such roles. I believe that even a villain should have character, which people can remember.

If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.

The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't really become real to me until I draw them.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

For me acting is passion, emotion, and creating the character and the whole world around the character. We enjoy all that. Sleeping on time, eating healthy, you are what your lifestyle is.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

It was bad for a stuntman to have a reputation for being hurt, and worse yet to report it.

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created a character that was away from how you've known me thus far in my career.

Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.

Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.

I don't think I have a reputation to live up to and that I need to do things to satisfy that.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing!

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

One of my favourite plants is English lavender but it doesn't have the best reputation for growing in the Highlands.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.