Character Quotes
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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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It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
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Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.
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I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.
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When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
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I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
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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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Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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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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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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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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The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
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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.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
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Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
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We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.
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There's nothing comparative to Damien the current Robin or any of the other characters. I love those characters. And this isn't, "This is better than that." I think a couple of people misread what we had said in the first issue about that stuff.
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I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.
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You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.
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Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.
