Character Quotes
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I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.
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Is Messi a real player or a Play Station character?
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As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
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The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.
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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
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When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.
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There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.
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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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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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We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
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When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.
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We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
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At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
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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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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
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I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
