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Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
Brad Pitt's role in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' - I want to do that so bad! That's one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.
When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.
I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!
The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.
I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.
For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!
When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.
I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.
Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.
I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.
Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.