Character Quotes
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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
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'People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.'
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I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
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Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.
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I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.
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But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
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I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.
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I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
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We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
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There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
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..the elements of form have a particular aspect; every fragment, every plane, every line has its proper character.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
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Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.
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A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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Everyday we see your heart and character, inspiring all of us to give more of ourselves.'You are the leader to take us from where we are to where we need to be.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
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I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
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When I went to the Crash premiere I left before they showed the scene of me pulling over Thandie Newton in the car. It was too disturbing. It's a character up there, but I still see me.
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My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.
