Character Quotes
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People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all in. It's so much fun and I just love this character and I love the guys I work with so I'm just enjoying this right now.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
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I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
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You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.
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I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.
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Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
