Character Quotes
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The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.
Penelope Cruz
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I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
Holly Hunter
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
Colin Morgan
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If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
Andrew Lincoln
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I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
Katherine Heigl
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Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
Charles H. Townes
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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Jesse Eisenberg
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I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.
Mary Balogh
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On the pitch, I will always be like that. That's my character, and I will always compete and compete - always. I'm a different guy off the pitch, as you can see, but on the pitch, I will not change.
Diego Costa
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Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
Matthew Fox
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Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.
Jill Clayburgh
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I can't approach a character with judgment.
Nelsan Ellis
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Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.
Kate Jacobs
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I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
Denis Villeneuve
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This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it's like to actually control a character from a top-down, 'God's eye' view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player's head.
Brendan Iribe
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Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.
James Howard Kunstler
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'I once saw a film where the main character didn't speak for the first half hour.'
Peter Greenaway
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I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.
Elodie Yung
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I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
Angelina Jolie
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I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.
Ang Lee
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I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
James Gandolfini
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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Franz Liszt
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade