Character Quotes
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The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
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The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.
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The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
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A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
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Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.
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A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
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How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.
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There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.
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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
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There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.
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I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.
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I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.
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As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
