Character Quotes
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Opposed to atomism and behaviorism, the systems view of man links him again with the world he lives in, for he is seen as emerging in that world and reflecting its general character.
Ervin Laszlo
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I love playing a character that has more than 90 minutes, and that keeps going.
Harry Treadaway
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Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.
Russell M. Nelson
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Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
Sibel Kekilli
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Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Lauren Bacall
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Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.
Essie Davis
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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.
Eva Green
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
Nicholas A. Basbanes
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We just assume all the great actors are in New York first and then L.A. second, and it's so not true. There's such amazing talent everywhere. It's exciting that now that there are these sort of new Hollywoods or new filmmaking communities that really benefit from these great faces and character actors and leading actors that just are fresh and exciting and bring an authenticity to the piece.
Sandra Bullock
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The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
Michael Arndt
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You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.
Evan Peters
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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.
Sue Grafton
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Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
Michael Morpurgo
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I love con-men characters in film.
Simon Baker
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
Arthur Helps
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I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, as a personal challenge that gave me strength and understanding and in which I invested all my heart.
Cristina Garcia Rodero
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Most of my films have been very character driven.
Rana Daggubati
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Ryan Gosling
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
Elizabeth Goudge
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My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.
Stephen Fry
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The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.
Bill Clinton
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
Steve Martin
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I needed to stay in the character.
Michael Pitt