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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.
I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.
We need a fearless fighter in the White House - not just to win this election, but also to restore the character of our nation.
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.
I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.
All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.
I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.
A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.
I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.
I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.
All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.
People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.
Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
I thought, I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.
I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.