Character Quotes
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I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.
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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
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I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.
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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
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I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
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The man that makes a character makes foes.
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I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
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I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.
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The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
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Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.
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The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.
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I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.
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When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
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Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
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The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
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So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
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I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.
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It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.
