Character Quotes
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I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.
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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
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Your character is your destiny.
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The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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The only way to live in the midst of inharmonious influences is to strengthen the will power and endure all things,yet keeping fineness of character and nobility of manner together with an everlasting heart full of love.
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Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.
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Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.
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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.
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I'm the opposite of the character in my novel: I've become more right-wing as I've got older.
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Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
