Character Quotes
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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
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You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.
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Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
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I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.
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I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
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I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
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I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
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And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
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The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.
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Character is the salesperson
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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.
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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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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
