Characters Quotes
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
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Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.
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I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
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I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.
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One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.
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As for the minor characters, it seemed natural for each of them to have his good or bad moment in the life of the protagonists and then slip into the background, just as when we think back on our existence and, of the many people who entered the flow of our lives, remember almost nothing.
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I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
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To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.
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There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.
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You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
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In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
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To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.
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To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.
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I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.
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I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
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Our fans are really passionate and really protective of the characters on the show. That's just a testament to them, that kind of reaction.
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As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.
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I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
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I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
