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Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.
When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.
Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.
Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.
When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.
I'd rather feel empathy for a character that's fictional, so it doesn't quite tie into personal experience as much.
Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.
Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.
Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.
Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.