"I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling."

Character, Feeling, Thinking

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling."

Exlpore more Character quotes

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

George Eliot, British Author

Character, Nobility, Generosity, Judgment

"Failures make character, not success."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Character, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Character, Trials, Success, Qualities

"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Character, Integrity, Truth, Power, Foundation

"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Virtue, Patience, Loyalty, Kindness

"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Character, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Happiness

"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Character, Virtue, Spirit, Attraction, Influence

"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Character, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Happiness

"If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Treat, Self, Good, Others

"Strive to be a person of character not a person of power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Character, Power, Person, Strive

Explore more quotes by Rod Steiger

"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

Actor, Actors, Chance, Style

"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."

Nothing, Talk

"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully."

Time, Kiss

"Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself."

Character, Forget, Play, Problems

"I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know."

Time, Thought

"He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then."

Deep, Now, Production, Snow

"Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better."

Film,

"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"

American, Reason

"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"

Life, Love, End, Film

"Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of."

Thought, People, Film, Importance