Dick Francis Quotes

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a coming of age story and it's a realisation of 'I am what I am - what has happened to me, good or bad, that is the sum of who I am now'.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

We are who we are because of who we were

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?