Character Quotes
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock
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Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
Seneca the Younger
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The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.
Wim Wenders
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Your character is your destiny.
Eugene Sullivan
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
Cate Marvin
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I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.
Michael B. Jordan
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My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.
Stephen Fry
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I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.
William Brinkley
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You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.
Evan Peters
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When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.
Heather Graham
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I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.
Johnny Depp