Qualities Quotes

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.