#hara

That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character. ↗

— Emily Raboteau

#judge #judgement #skin-color #judgement

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction. ↗

— Christian Baloga

#bipolar #character #christian-baloga #crazy #emotional

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel. ↗

— Charles Baxter

#deniability #mistakes #passive-voice #politics #villainy

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent. ↗

— Hugo Hamilton

#future #growing-up #growth #heritage #history

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. ↗

— Aaliyah

#action #character #coach #i #involved

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#believes #bestowed #books #characters #free

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗

— John Adams

#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character. ↗

— Alan Alda

#authentic #character #defeat #fun #i

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #big #character #i #interesting

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#bad #bad character #believed #character #go