Top 1200 Weakness Of Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.

I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.

As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

That NXT title, in character and out of character, it means the world to me.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the author's intent to deal with, you have the filmmaker's vision, and then you have your own wants, desires and needs for the character. It's collaborative. But I knew, right off the bat, that there was no way to go into some sort of pink-haired, clown-nosed character with Ronald McDonald shoes.

I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.

Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself and my character because if I will go so deep into it, it will get difficult for me to come back. You should work towards understanding the psyche of your character and then play it.

Not many know, but the costumes of your character can really help you to get into the skin of the character.

I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance.

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it is, no matter what the character does, you have to find the reason for it. Everyone's got a reason for what they do, even if it's a reason that they're not proud of.

Brian is an archetypal character, a bit like Don Juan, which is how I play him. He's a blast to play. He believes unapologetically in his freedom. He holds nothing back. Something I'm learning is, you can't hate the character you play. If I think my character is an asshole, that's all that will come across. He is drawn in an extreme way, but that doesn't mean he's not a person.

One job I did turn down was 'How I Met Your Mother.' My character was 'creepy gay guy.' That was the character. The script said, 'Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he's just being creepy.'

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for one character. And five themes for another. And then I'll take one piece of one of them and put it with a piece of another one for that character or take another theme from another character and move it into this character.... And when I have my characters finally dressed, then he composes.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and I respect him. It's interesting; I respect the character that I play. I don't understand it, but I do. That's a good thing. I think so, I think so. I never felt like that before with a character.

There's something so beautiful in playing a character that supports another character's success.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.