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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
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 could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.
For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'
Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.