Character Quotes
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Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.
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The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
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What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.
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I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
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I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I'm also a bit of loser, so wear a lot of film and band T-shirts. My friends say that I look like a cartoon character because I'm always wearing the same kind of stuff.
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You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."
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Choices determine character.
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That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor to say my character wouldn't do that, because he should do that in order to help tell the story.
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
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Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.
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Man shows his character best in trifles.
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It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
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The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.
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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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On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.
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Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
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I put myself into character for my songs.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
