Character Quotes
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Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
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Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.
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When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.
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Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.
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In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.
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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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It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
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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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I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
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If character is destiny, the good are damned.
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Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.
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I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I am committed to a view in the neighborhood - the view that the moral worth of one's actions depends on the quality of will expressed in them.
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If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
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In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
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I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.
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If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
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The whole thing was an actor's dream - getting a character that tickles you so much you can't wait to act as him.
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Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
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There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of Will Shawn.
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
