Character Quotes
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.
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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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My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.
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A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
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Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.
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To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.
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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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What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.
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All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.
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I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
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Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.
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You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.
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I did a character called Captain Q for Nestle's Quik. Those commercials were kind of funny.
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
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I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.
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Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.
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For women and men, but especially women, with on camera acting you have to look a certain way. You have to present yourself as the most attractive version of yourself that you can be, and then you're judged based on how attractive you are or if you are the right look for the character.
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I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.
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Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
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I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.
