Real Character Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character. — Joseph Barbera
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it… — Frank Cady
The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. — Winston Churchill
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... — Joshua Reynolds
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite… — Samuel Johnson
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . — Napoleon Hill
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person. — Swami Vivekananda
What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's… — Christopher Nolan
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. — Alexander Smith
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They… — Sandra Brown
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and… — Hank Azaria
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter… — Fran Kranz
We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden. — James E. Faust
All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the… — Joseph E. Johnston
Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust,… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two… — Judd Apatow
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. — Michael Gambon

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