Character Quotes
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Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters
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Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.
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Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.
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Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
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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.
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There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
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It's not our mistakes that define us. It's the lessons we learn that show our true character.
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Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.
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You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.
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The supreme blossoming of character lies or reside in renounciation or renuncement and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)
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I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.
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If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
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I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances."
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I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
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...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.
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So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
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If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
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Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
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My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
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The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.
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I think it's essential for writers to be involved in the recording process as things can often go wrong in this area. Voice actors are all too often presented with a wad of XL sheets, no proper character notes, context or reference and are just expected to perform.
