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I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend!
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.
Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.
I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.
It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, "You dressed up like a character today, it's not Halloween."
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.
Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.
There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.