Character Quotes
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That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.
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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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All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
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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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Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
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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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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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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
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Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
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I strongly believe that when you are cast in a role, there will be similarity in the character and you - why else would you be chosen for the character?
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.
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If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
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I put myself into character for my songs.
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Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
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You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
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I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.
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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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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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The only thing I can say in comparison is when I play comedy characters; I definitely put empathy in right up at the forefront. I think if you believe in someone because you not necessarily feel sorry for them, but you can see how they are the way they are and you can laugh with them, but rather than laugh at them, you are on their side and I think it's
