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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Character Quotes

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain’t no flattery. And when it comes to beauty – and goodness too – she lays over them all.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 28. Huck seems quite infatuated with Mary Jane Wilks, who promises to remember him forever and pray for him.

This is a life-changing election. It will determine what America will look like for a long, long time. Character is on the ballot. Compassion is on the ballot. Decency, science, democracy. They’re all on the ballot. Who we are as a nation, what we stand for and most importantly, who we want to be, that’s all on the ballot.

– Joe Biden

On 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

– John Lubbock

The Use of Life.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

– Hunter Tylo

We’ve all read, I’m sure, a Superman book where we didn’t really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

– Gary Frank

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn’t ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

– Harrison Ford

The research I have been doing – studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells – does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

– Hans Adolf Krebs

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn’t realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

– Ian McDiarmid

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

– Hrithik Roshan

I didn’t even realize this at first, but there’s almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn’t have a dead mother or a lost parent.

– Gregory Maguire

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

– George Edmund Street

In acting class, teachers talk about how the ‘givens’ of a situation help define a character.

– Hill Harper

Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

– Hal Holbrook

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you’ll never ask, ‘Why doesn’t the painting look like the sculpture?’

– Gavin Hood

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I’m playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That’s really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

– Hugh Dancy

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

– Herbert Read

Character is destiny.

– Heraclitus

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

– Hattie McDaniel

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

– Hermann Hesse

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.

– Gay Talese

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

– Hedi Slimane

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

– Goran Visnjic

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

– George Kaiser

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character’s voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

– Griffin Dunne

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

– George William Russell

Education has for its object the formation of character.

– Herbert Spencer

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

– George Edmund Street

Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they’ve thought about and explored in their imaginations… But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they’re so open-minded and excited and honest. There’s something beautiful about their enjoyment of it – something very Superman-like.

– Henry Cavill

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

– Herbert Hoover

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