Character Quotes
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.
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Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.
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When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.
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I was born a character actor.
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You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.
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In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.
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I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
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I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.
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I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!
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I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
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It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
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I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.
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I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
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We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
