Character Quotes
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The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
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I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
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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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Uniforms ruin every character
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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
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Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
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When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
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I was the offbeat character that had to kiss the offbeat boys and, ugh, some of the boys they brought in. There was one boyfriend in particular, we had to climb a mountain, and he was just weird and awful, and I hated it. So the producers left a big bag of Hershey Kisses after that taping saying, "Here are some kisses you will actually enjoy. Thanks for doing this." Isn't that so nice?
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For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.
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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
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I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
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I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.
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I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
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When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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I don't feel very glowing, especially after wearing makeup - and not necessarily my choice of makeup - for 12 hours straight on a movie set. When I'm playing a character, her look is sometimes different from my own.
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It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.
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Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
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As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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Einstein showed us how to find all the possible universes that were consistent with the laws of physics and the character of gravity, how to reconstruct their pasts and predict their futures. But actually finding them was no easy task.
