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Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.
My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.
Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.
In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.
To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.
There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.
This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.
I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.
I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.