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
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real… — John Braine 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
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
If you really want to know the real character of a poor man just have to wait for him to be rich. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Being a painter myself... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with charm. It means you get away with stuff. It means you never have to develop a real character… — Elizabeth Day Copy Share Image
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It wasn't like this happy-go-lucky experience, shooting Norman movie. It was something I kind of had to, sort of dedicate a certain… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some… — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as one type of actor. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role… — Fran Kranz 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
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
“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
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
Do I think he's got character? Yeah. You don't play defense like that without deeply caring about teammates... John Wall plays real… — Colin Cowherd 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
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
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
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
“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 love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all… — Napoleon Hill 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
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
I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that… — Chiaki Kuriyama 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'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
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
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
