Character Quotes
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My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it's just something that you feel - a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.
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The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
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I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.
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No sir. The first thing is character.
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We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
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Producing is figuring out how to make each character have a distinct voice, how to make the story twist and turn - that's the biggest challenge.
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Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
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Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
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If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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When you're working with an ensemble, I think you really need different energies because you don't have much time with each character to make them feel real. You want strong personalities that are very different.
