Character Quotes
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The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.
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After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.
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The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.
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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
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As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.
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Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.
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And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
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There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!'
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As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
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Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.
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An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.
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I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.
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The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
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I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
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I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything I've done is about these quite eccentric, exotic outsiders who you might see in a certain light at first, but once you scratch the surface a little, you realize that they're not that different from you. I think there's an element of that which unites.
