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You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.
Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.
The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.
Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.
I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.
I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.
I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.
Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.
That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.
When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Luca Changretta's not someone you want to be at odds with. It's a fantastic opportunity for me, and he's a fascinating character.
It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.