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I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.
My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.
The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128)
When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.
When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually
I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.
I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.
Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.
I don't like watching myself. That's kind of weird but you know it's not me really, it's this character, which I think might make it a little easier.
Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.
There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.
Each film and each character is a completely new set of challenges. It doesn't feel like you can rest on something you may have done well in the past.
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.
If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.
I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.