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I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.
Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.
I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.
One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.
I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.
Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.