Character Quotes
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I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
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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.
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I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.
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It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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I thought it was a terrible idea being a supporting character on a football show.
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In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
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Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
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Power is a test - the test - of character.
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
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The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.
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Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.
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It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do in every situation because it's a very, very fast paced business. You do ninety pages a day on a Soap Opera. It's insane. It's such a small world, the soaps. It's all contained in one little studio.
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I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
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Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
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what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
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I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
