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Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.
Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.
What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.
If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.
It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character; it just matters what you do with it.
In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.
The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.
The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.