Character Quotes
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
Michael Schur -
An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.
Ezra Taft Benson
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As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
Tommy Franks -
I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.
Will Friedle -
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
Melissa Bank -
There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just posture, and the way you walk, and the way you physically are. All of that says a lot about who someone is.
Mia Wasikowska -
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
Alison Elliott -
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster
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I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
James Cromwell -
I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
Mike Leigh -
I think you get in these games and you really see who your team is and what their character is.
Dan Monson -
There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.
Juan Pablo Di Pace -
Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.
Michael Berryman -
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
Edward S. Walker, Jr.
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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 -
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
Charles Grandison Finney -
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
Michael Gambon -
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Mia Maestro -
I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.
Morgan Saylor -
I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
Gerard Depardieu
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Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood -
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes -
As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved.
Paul Sparks -
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.
Paul Dano