Character Quotes
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To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.
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I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God.
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The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.
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My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
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I'm interested in playing Rasputin at some point. I find him such a fascinating character and a fascinating period in Russian history. Either Rasputin or Jesus. I think I have more of a chance to play Rasputin.
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They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book.
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Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
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My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
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If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
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Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
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What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
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The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
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If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
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Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
