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How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. — Edward Herrmann

You sow a thought, you reap an action. Reap an action, you sow a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, you reap your destiny. — Robin S. Sharma

Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. — A. C. Bradley

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. — Jonathan Franzen

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. — Colin Trevorrow

Character is revealed through action. — Aristotle.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi ... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. — Jensen Ackles

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. — Duane Elgin

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible. — John Irving

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. — Stephen R. Covey

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action. — Christopher Golden

There's no need to tell me who you are; you're already showing me. — Steve Maraboli

It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. — Elizabeth Wordsworth

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. — Nic Pizzolatto

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. — Sergio Aragones

Leadership is character in action. — James Hunter

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. — Thomas Lickona

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance. — William Shenstone

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. — Mignon McLaughlin

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. — Lee Child

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy. — Sun Yat-sen

City Action. Al is a true Damon Runyon character — Donald J. Trump

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character — Billy Wilder

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past. — Vicky McClure

Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society. — Noam Chomsky

About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride. — Jack Getze

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character. — Oscar Wilde

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. — Oscar Wilde

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. — Aristotle.

It was like living with a bad action movie, all excitement and motion, and no character development. — Christina Dodd

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. — Robert Duvall

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story. — Flannery O'Connor

Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action. — David McCullough

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character! EL — Evinda Lepins

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down. — Rachel Aaron

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them. — Jerome Kern

Plot is character in action. — Maren Elwood

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action. — Vince Lombardi

Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character. — Jim George

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through. — Zig Ziglar

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. — Aaron Paul

Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, habits become our character, and our character becomes our destiny. — James Hunter

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. — Tryon Edwards

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. — Linda W. Yezak

Anything you put in a play
any speech
has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along. — Edward Albee

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. — Brandon Sanderson

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. — Clive Owen

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do. — Taylor Lautner

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. — David Mamet

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. — Raheel Farooq

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. — Amit Ray

Character is ethics in action. — Michael Josephson

Action is Character. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows. — James Arness

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. — Eric Dane

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi

Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. — Linda Seger

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut. — Walton Goggins

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened. — John C. Maxwell

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new. — Michael Trucco

You character and action will reveal your purpose. — Debasish Mridha

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. — Sigourney Weaver

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. — Charles De Gaulle

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. — Aristotle.

But in action, one defies one's character. — Daniel Bell

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before. — Robbie Amell

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white. — Gene Luen Yang

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. — Zoe Kazan

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink. — John Taliaferro

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

plot is how the dramatic events (action) in a story change and/or transform the main character (emotion) over time in a meaningful way (theme). — Martha Alderson

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions. — Stanley Schmidt

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen. — Ellen Schreiber

If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future. — Shannon L. Alder