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“As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.”

Children Character Fool Clown Wacky

Author:Gemma Ward

“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.”

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.”

Character Fool Inches Rogues

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.”

May Persons Book Character Reading Pleasure Quality Poet Flower Fool Delight Stupidity Silly Sincere Masterpiece Cleverness Freshness Sincere Love Picking Flowers Silly Person

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.”

Character Fool Determined

Book:Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.”

Men Country Character Action Enjoy Poet Fool Conversation Fancy Careless

Book:His Works

Source: His Works

“A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.”

Men Should Wells Character Shows Quality Fine Fool Bounds Defects Hypocrite Mistrust

Author:Joseph Joubert

“The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.”

“It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.”

Men Hard Whole Character Truth Fool Trade Deceiving Whole Truth

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.”

Character Suffering Actors Fool Exception Sweetheart Character Actors Cranky

Author:Willem Dafoe

“There are people who follow me on Twitter and tell me how much they don't like me, how much they don't want me on the show, and that they hope I die. And it's not just about the character. They tell me how they've never liked Scott Foley, and that he's a stupid, white, plain-bread looking fool.”

People Want Character Shows Dies White Stupid Fool Bread Like Me Want Me Follow Me Don't Like Me

Author:Scott Foley

“The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.”

Character Wealth Results Fool Prosperous

Author:Aristotle

“I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.”

Writing Ideas Character Novel Fool

Author:Robert Cormier

“The cognitive therapy that takes place in the film Antichrist is a form of therapy that I have used for some time, and it has to do with confronting your fears. I would say that especially the part of the film that has to do with therapy is humoristic because people who know about this form of therapy would know that the character is more than a fool.”

People Character Film Fool Therapy Antichrist

Author:Lars von Trier

“I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.”

People Giving Character Film Suffering Fool Stronger Passionate Exception Admiration Sweetheart Cranky

Author:Willem Dafoe

“As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing in novels. I don't really believe that the backstory is the story you need. And I don't believe it's more like life to get it - the buildup of "character" through psychological and family history, the whole idea of "knowing what the character wants." People in real life so often do not know what they want. People trick themselves, lie to themselves, fool themselves. It's called survival, and self-mythology.”

People Believe Real Character Lying Novel Fool Survival Real Life Psychological Realist Family History

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.”

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Author:Elmore Leonard

“Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.”

People Men Character President Fool Good Man Presenting President Nixon

Author:Carroll O'Connor

“Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.”

Play Character Actors Roles Judging Fool Motive Justification

Author:Alan Rickman

“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.”

Needs Should Soul Character Night Fighting Winning Party Inspire Fool Battle Losing

Author:William Butler Yeats

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”

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Book:Marilyn Monroe in her own words

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

“Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.”

Character Fool Tricks

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”

People Character Comedy Fool Clown

Book:Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.

Source: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.