Best built & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.”

People Men Looks Character Guy Tough Built Toms Cruise

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.”

Looks Made Book Character Actors Built Mad Comic Comic Book

Author:Joe Manganiello

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

Men Way May Different Character Hands Might Spirit Turns Source Built Agony Fabric Humiliation Straws

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.”

Character Actors Chance Roles Stage Huge Understood Built Privilege

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.”

Ifs Character Force Capitalism Built Productions Productive Serving Unnecessary

Book:Marx and science

Source: Marx and science

“Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.”

Humans Whole Character Four Industry Built Perseverance Human Life Pillars Edifice

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”

“When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.”

World Wells Character Dream Consciousness Events Built Delight Oppression Awake Outcomes Peril Scenery

Author:Richard Bach

“Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”

Men Character Materials Circumstances Built One Man Palaces

Author:George Henry Lewes

“I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.”

Men May Character Might Lasts House Differences Rich Ordinary Built Architecture Lovely Suits Occupation Dwelling

Book:The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

Source: The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...

“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."”

Ifs War Character Stories Lasts Courses Drama Elements Survival Built Life And Death Stakes War Stories

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”

Character Language Built Plot Tickets

Author:Aimee Bender

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.”

Source: Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)

“Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.”

Ifs Way Feels Whole Character Actors Careers Built

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.”

Character Built

Author:Mark Martin

“Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.”

Years Littles Character Week Months Discipline Built Insignificant

Book:Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

Source: Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose

“I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.”

Character Spirit Born Kings One Day Lucky Expectations Built Foundation Entitlement So Lucky Entitlement Programs

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.”

Thinking Said Sometimes Character Hurt Built Balls They Said Stitches Got Hurt

Author:Garry Marshall

“I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the west coast. I built my career up by doing small roles (which led) to principal roles and getting bumped into main character roles.”

Character Careers Roles Built Moved West East Principal Coast Main Characters West Coast East Coast Small Roles

Author:Drew Waters

“What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.”

Ends Matter Character Taught Built Competence

Author:Michael Josephson

“If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.”

People Ifs Littles Persons Ends Character Winning Sound Differences Built

Book:The Law of success: In Sixteen Lessions

Source: The Law of success: In Sixteen Lessions

“I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's similar to speaking about literature. I like it, and then I don't like it. It has such an inherent vein of pretention, because you're not speaking about real things. There's a literary pretentiousness made of speaking and spending so much time on unreal persons. And it seems, now, impossible to create an unpretentious, totally organic character.”

Writing Persons Made Real Character Seems Literature Impossible Concepts Built Spending Inherent Veins Loan Real Things Unreal Borrowed Pretentiousness

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.”

Want Character Conflict Built Paradox

Author:Dana Spiotta

“This is a corny actor thing to say, but the first step is that you can't judge the character that you're playing. If it's built in three-dimensional fashion, you'll just play a character who's going out and seeking the best version of their life that they can find. That gives the character an accessibility that everyone can identify with.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Play Character Three Actors Steps Fashion Judging Built Seeking Versions First Steps Going Out Corny Accessibility

Author:Tommy Dewey

“The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.”

Knows Character Born Singing Built Traits Character Trait

Author:Ed Helms

“I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.”

People Thinking Character Term Justice Taught Built Legacy Peter Equality And Justice Justice For All

Author:John Carlos

“When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look.”

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Author:Mahershala Ali

“But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.”

Ifs Character Certain Built Embarrassing Embarrassment

Author:Christian Bale

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

Character Nations Imagination Four Human Nature Built Independence Structure Individuality Individualism Initiative Cornerstones Character Education Personality Flaws

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.”

World Wells Long Character Helping Stories Action Stars Security Adventure Drama Concepts Built Train Missions Defined Range Performing Exploration Transportation Format Wagons Yorktown

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.”

People Thinking Want Persons Made Character Lines Poverty College Grew Grew Up Built Stronger Average Grades Better Person

Author:Justin Bieber

“Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.”

Character Built

Author:Bill Watterson

“The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.”

People Way Giving Said Character Use Three Born Achieve Brother Materials Built You Choose Brothers And Sisters Thrust

Author:Maya Angelou

“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.”

People Needs Believe Character School Religion Religious Moral Air Training Built Foundation Instruction Secular Secularism Atheistic Faith Religion

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.”

Wells Made Character Decision Deals Situation Built Stones Pressure Extraordinary Everyday Temptation Towers

Author:Michael Josephson

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