On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than… — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character.… — Jerry Ferrara Copy Share Image
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The measure of a mans real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves,… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character,… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
“If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For… — Brock Lesnar Copy Share Image
I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end… — Edi Gathegi Copy Share Image
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In these aspirations, much more than in deliberate, rational coordinated ideas, is the real character of a man to be found. Our… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I love to share my problems with friends. They think I'm revealing my personal life, but I'm actually revealing theirs. What a… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“Throughout the most trying phase of the Case, Nixon and his family, and sometimes his parents, were at our farm, encouraging me… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the… — Nwaocha Ogechukwu Copy Share Image
I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my… — Darius McCrary Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Moral courage and character go hand in hand … a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic… — Martha Boaz Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them. — Shigesato Itoi Copy Share Image
I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed… — Loretta Swit Copy Share Image
“Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same truth! That shows… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.” — Charles Bayard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image