Character Quotes
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Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.
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Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
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I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.
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The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.
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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
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The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
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With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.
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The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
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Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
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Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.
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Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
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I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.
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Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
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I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
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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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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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Bruce sees in this character - who fought all the way through "Superheavy" when his parents were missing, and now is determined to fight even though his parents are telling him he's worth nothing - the essence of Batman.
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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
