Character Quotes
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I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
Piper Perabo
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Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.
Ashley Madekwe
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The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus
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Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.
Octavia Spencer
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.
Johnny Galecki
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Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.
Sara Sheridan
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As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above", I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.
Charles Dickens
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I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.
Penelope Cruz
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I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
Christopher McQuarrie
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I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a passion. I like to play golf, but I am not a golfer. I like to cook, but I am not a chef. I don't just like to run. I am a runner. It is a passion. It is part of who I am and is woven into the fabric of my personality, character, and psyche.
Adam Goucher
