- Intellect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born a character actor.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All those method guys - like that De Niro, Stallone, and what's his name, Pacino - they're all the same.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that - like a cartoon.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we love about the character Katie, played by Katy Mixon, is that she feels very universal and very relatable. And what we love about 'American Housewife' is that it feels like it could speak for housewives from New York to Los Angeles, from Boise to Miami.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020