Character Quotes
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Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
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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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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.
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It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.
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I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.
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It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
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Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.
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A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.
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Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
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I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
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The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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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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My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.
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The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
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I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room
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I've always played very human sort of characters.
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.
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Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
