Character Quotes
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I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.
Mark Strong
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That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.
Sally Kellerman
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And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
Trish Stratus
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I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.
Aasif Mandvi
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My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.
Frank Peretti
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I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
Jenny Scheinman
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I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy. The scene where he gets caught in fly paper, he's such a great dog!
Bob Peterson
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My first kiss was onscreen. My character learned to drive before I did, so when they asked me to hit the mark with that giant Lincoln, I hit the camera instead. Being an actor gives an interesting perspective on life. And in my case, an interesting preview.
Kellie Martin
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You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
Marshall Allman
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To build a character like Henry Warnimont required a few weeks and months of work. It turned out he was basically a very kind and generous man, which he covered up with his surface gruffness and surface bluster. And the kind of hopeless quality, that 'everything goes wrong' kind of thing.
George Gaynes
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
R. C. Sproul
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Batroc is a laughable character. I'm the one who always makes fun of him.
Jeph Loeb
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It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
Matthew Ashford
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There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
Nicole Beharie
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Once there was a certain man who was very clever, but it was his character to always see the negative points of his jobs. In such a way, one will be useless.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.
Samira Wiley
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
Reese Hoffa
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In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.
Parminder Nagra
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
Nancy Kress
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
Mahesh Babu
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Nothing contributes more to nourish elevation of sentiments in a people, than the large and free character of their habitations.
John Stuart Mill
