Character Quotes
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Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.
James Purefoy
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
Flannery O'Connor
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Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
William Emerson Arnett
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The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
John Hodgman
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I want every character be an outsider in some way.
Josh Schwartz
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The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.
Adam Sandler
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Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.
Kristen Stewart
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The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's making both of you laugh, you see if there's a character or situation that could be written into.
Mike O'Brien
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
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There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
Curtis Armstrong
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He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
Chris Pine
