Al Pacino Quotes, Character Quotes, Play Quotes

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

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I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , World Quotes

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Memories Quotes , Character Quotes

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

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Tags : Adam Sandler Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise

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Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Character Quotes , Life Is Quotes

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

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Tags : Aasif Mandvi Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Blue Quotes

When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Looks Quotes

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes