Habits Quote by N.T. Wright

“The gap between intentions and actions is character.”

— Orrin Woodward

“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects about his…

— Peter L. Berger

“Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected.…

— Jan Siegel

“Like actors taking a role in a play. We wear our human faces and harbor our dramas and fantasies, but it’s the same individuals…

— wildbow

“Every human being is a bundle of institutionalized roles. He has to play many parts, and unless he knows his lines as well as…

— Elaine Andersen

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that…

— Viola Davis

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

“There are different ways of approaching roles. Some people get involved in the emotional aspects of characters.”

— Tobin Bell

We all have an obligation as actors to be true to ourselves and our best instincts, but often there's a higher purpose, which is…

— Peter Scolari

“The roles are like scripts given out for a play. They prescribe what feelings you can or cannot have. After playing my Hero role…

— John Bradshaw

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

— Thornton Wilder

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

— Orison Swett Marden