Character Quotes
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.
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Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.
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They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.
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I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.
Eugene Simon -
Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.
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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
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But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
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I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
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The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not be so good.
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We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China, and in many key areas these relations, without any exaggeration, have a strategic character. As we say, the strategic character of privileged partnership.
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Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
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Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.
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But I was very proud of our team. I thought they showed a lot of character, showed a lot of competitiveness on the sideline. Because when we got behind, the sideline was great. ... We kept our poise, kept our confidence.
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I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
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In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.
