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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.
I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.
I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities.
I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Quebec's distinct character makes Canada an even better country, and vice versa: being in Canada makes Quebec a better place too.
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.
How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.
It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.
Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.
Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.
In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.
Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?