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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.
Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.
The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.
When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier.
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.
I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?
I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.
You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.
The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.
I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.
I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.
I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.
You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.