Character Quotes
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The Secretariat horse character reveals his true identity, and it happens to be Bob Newhart.
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.
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Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask.
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I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook.
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Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.
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Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.
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Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
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I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.
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I never thought I'd be right to play a Juliet-like character.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways to put something into your character. I'm not sure I'm always aware I'm mimicking someone.
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With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.
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When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation falling upon it.
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Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.
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My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
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That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.
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Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
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It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.
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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.
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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.
