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  • In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  • We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

    Friendship   Hate   Real  
  • The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  • 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, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.

    Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.52, Sophia Institute Press
  • Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

    Real   Character   Play  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

    Source: collider.com
  • Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

    Funny   Real   Character  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria
  • Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

    Real   Character   Pride  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.131
  • There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

    Real   Character   Play  
    Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. January 31, 2006.
  • Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

    Real   Character   People  
    "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.
  • I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

  • 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.

    Real   Character   Soul  
  • 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 .

    Real   Character   Men  
    Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.290, Penguin
  • Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

    Real   Character   Men  
    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.92
  • TV is a safe place to develop real characters.

    Real   Character   Safe  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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 based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

  • I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

    Real   Character   Mask  
    Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
  • Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

    Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr
  • It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

    Real   Character   Men  
  • Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

    Real   Character   Men  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305
  • The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

    Real   Character   Mean  
    Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.204, Library of America
  • A radio play actually ended up being the first acting job I ever had. A lot of times when I'm on camera, I'm playing characters that are more like myself, and I don't get to do a lot of real character work. But when you're doing animation, you are the very epitome of colorful characters. I think I'm just really into make believe.

    Jobs   Real   Believe  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • 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 take more plotting and real character development.

    Real   Book   Character  
  • Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

  • If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

    Real   Character   Play  
  • 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 narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

    The Rambler no. 60 (13 Oct. 1750)
  • 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 in his pleasures.

  • The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation
  • 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 Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

    Real   Character   People  
    "Fran Kranz Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, DEATH OF A SALESMAN and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 10, 2012.
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