- Dramatic Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embody Quotes
On fully living out an idea, role, or value.
This page explores what it takes to fully embody something, whether it's a value like service above self, a company's culture, or a dramatic persona on stage. For more on character, see the Character quotes page.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what you think of as the American people embracing - I don't think, on paper, I embody anything of that perceived persona. I think that's what people are latching on to, that I'm different.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
- Love
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The best of our nation is exemplified by our nation's veterans who embody what it means to put service above self. Who have sacrificed their own personal interests out of a greater love for our people and our country.
- Person
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When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'
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America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
- Life
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Bryan Cranston's advice to actors, it's my favorite thing, and it changed my life. He said: Don't go into an audition to get the job, go to share your work. That was so liberating. You read it, interpret it, embody it the way you want to play that person and embody them with your whole heart and soul for those 20 minutes.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
- May
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Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.
- Made
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In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe we must go further in redefining what United's corporate citizenship looks like in our society... and we intend to live up to those higher expectations in the way we embody social responsibility and civic leadership everywhere we operate.
- Entertainment Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the entertainment industry became more corporate and MBA-driven, Harvey Weinstein remained an unreconstructed specimen of the worst and most compelling character traits of a truer Hollywood. Harvey, and in a sense only Harvey, continued to embody the Hollywood self.
- Featured
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