Best shame & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.”

Giving Persons Character Jobs Give Me Shame Loud Outrageous Uncompromising Mcqueen Mulligans

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.”

Mean Character Community Destiny Share Glory Shame Covered Our Community Majestic

Author:Frederick Douglass

“The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.”

Source: Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

“Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.”

Character Perfect Shame Endure Painful

Author:Claude Lelouch

“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

“The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.”

“People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.”

People Believe Mean Persons Said Two Real Character Remember Strong Roles Weak Shame Mess Suicidal Depiction Not Strong Strong Character

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.”

Ideas Character Shame

Author:Matthew Healy

“I don't know if that's the best story for BoJack, long-term. I do love the world, and I love playing around in it and it feels like an elastic enough world that, any story I want to tell, I can tell about these characters in this world. I can talk about parents and children, husbands and wives, the troops, or Hollywood. It does feel like an endless playground at this point, it would be a shame if we cut it off early for fear of repeating the same things over and over again. But I am looking to move the story and character somewhat.”

World Children Enough Character Moving Parent Cutting Wife Husband Shame Husband And Wife

Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.”

Thinking Character Novel Shame Stranger Envy Right Thing Disgrace Dishonesty Intrigued Quicksand

Author:Danzy Senna

“A lot of Manchester now - it's creating jobs and that's great, but some of the character is getting sucked out. There's good and bad, but our personal perspective is that it's just a shame. You in Chicago protect your buildings, we don't have that. You'll find a good building will get replaced by a horrible looking thing.”

Character Building Perspective Protect Shame Horrible Replaced Good And Bad

Author:Jez Williams

“The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe. It's something that I don't want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don't feel like being noticed. It's not like I crave attention all the time. Something that I've always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone's character, observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I'm studying it. I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.”

Kind Character Feelings Problem Opportunity Chance Ability Attention Study Shame Curiosity Intense Well Known Appreciated Unnoticed

Author:Adrien Brody

“Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.”

Inspirational Wells Character Lying Literature Conditions Honor Shame Your Honor

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal Prayer, with Other Poems

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts

“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”

Men Character Young Father Novel Students Shame University Spokes Murderer Serials Psycho Abusers

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.”

Ifs Men Want Character Able Earth Faces Lying House Tears Comfortable Shame Warm Ruins Boards Ruined

Book:Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

Source: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

“Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.”

Character Study Shame Misconduct

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.”

Moments Character Joy Creation Emotional Regret Pride Scene Shame Profound Overwhelming Exploring Intuitive Imports

Author:David Corbett

“Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.”

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Author:Paul Haggis

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”

“To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.”

Knows Men World States Character Three Practice Know How Knowing Draws Shame Three Things Benevolence Vigor Confucianism

Author:Confucius

“Pride and shame both are clothes. Lions wear no clothes. They are neither proud nor ashamed of who they are. That's why they look powerful. Pride shows weakness, not strength.”

Character Spirituality Community Strength Pride Shame Duality

Author:Shunya

“Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.”

Source: Healology

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