#character

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#america #american #american politics #assassination #character

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#came #characters #how #i #kind

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson! ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #character #clone #comes #dean

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#deeply #delve #get #i #into

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#corner #god #my soul #place #soul

I'm extremely happy, but I don't do love songs for the most part. It feels weird; that's such a personal thing to me. I'd rather live that in my real life and play a different character outside of that. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#different #extremely #feels #happy #i

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#characters #drive #enough #far #full

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#around #bible #characters #christian #generally

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. ↗

— William Julius Wilson

#businessman #character #creativity #doctor #lawyer