Character Quote by Robert H. Shaffer Download Open image “Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.” — Robert H. Shaffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Strange Strength Warmth
Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. — John Howe Copy Share Image
Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns,… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. — Robert H. Shaffer Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
