David Gemmell Quotes

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.

Some people will never change.

… the field of action is not the field of intellect, it is the field of character; and change or development of character is always slow work.

Most people assume you change with success.

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.