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I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.
As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.
Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.
I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!
My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.
I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character.
As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.
Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.
Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator
I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.