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If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.
That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
I liked "Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite" because I really enjoyed the interaction between those two characters.
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed
My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs.
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.
Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.
In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.
Women show off their personality and character through accessories more than with low-cut shirts and skirts with huge slits.
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.
Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.
Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.
Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.