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But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

~ Ron Silver

Ron Silver Character People Behavior

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

~ Charles Eastman

Charles Eastman Friendship Character Easy

You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

~ Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris Character You Person

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Life Art Character

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

Clayton M. Christensen Character New Products

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

~ Corliss Lamont

Corliss Lamont Freedom Character Self

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

~ John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun Respect Character Great

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

William J. H. Boetcker Courage Character Man

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

~ Elisabeth Shue

Elisabeth Shue Work Character Caring

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

~ William J. H. Boetcker

William J. H. Boetcker Courage Character Men

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.

~ Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount Character Action Criticism

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

~ Henry Ford

Henry Ford Life Character World

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

~ John Lasseter

John Lasseter Character Be Yourself

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

~ Joshua Waitzkin

Joshua Waitzkin Relationship Character

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.

~ Justin Chatwin

Justin Chatwin Love Myself Character

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

~ Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Character Eating You

I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

Kaui Hart Hemmings Music Character Place

Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

~ Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson Faith Character God

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Benjamin Robbins Curtis Character Heart Fashion

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

~ Edward Brooke

Edward Brooke Integrity Best Character

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

~ Lilith Saintcrow

Lilith Saintcrow Character Goodbye

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

~ Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons Character College Night

Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.

~ Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine Character God Men

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

~ Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine Day Character Every Day

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

~ Ken Follett

Ken Follett Change Hero Character

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

~ Jenna Elfman

Jenna Elfman Time Character Bird

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

~ Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields Good Character Adversity

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

~ Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon Good Character Remember

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

~ Felicia Day

Felicia Day Work Character Challenge

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Change Character Politics

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoléon Bonaparte Character Great Passion

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

~ Aristotle

Aristotle Character Men Believe

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

~ Rutger Hauer

Rutger Hauer Hero Character Me

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

~ Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz Character Balance

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

~ Cavett Robert

Cavett Robert Good Character Moment

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.

~ Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy Health Character Safety

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

~ Michael N. Castle

Michael N. Castle Patriotism Character Honor

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

~ Ellie Kendrick

Ellie Kendrick Character Thought Game

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

~ Anne Frank

Anne Frank Character Greatness Lie

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

~ John Adams

John Adams Character Society Moral
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