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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.
I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.
I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.
For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.
The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.
Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.
What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.
Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.
It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.