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I auditioned specifically for Cyborg, but at the time, they were using a code name for the character... I think it was Oscar.
If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.
Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke.
'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.
Actually, they [ Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump] are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.
We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
If someone doesn't want to work with me because I'm playing a gay character, I don't want to work with them. They can fck off.
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.