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I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.
I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.
I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.
I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.
I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.
I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.
When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.
I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.
What is important is to maintain integrity of the story, of the character, of the movie, even if it's a big production.
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of his movies.
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.
The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.