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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.
Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.
The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.
I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical
Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.