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I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.
Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.
You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.
Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.
The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.