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I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.
When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.
I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.
If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.
In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.
No matter what the characters you play, you have to find the differences in them, especially when you are doing a political movie.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.
It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.
My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.
I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.
I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.
The Sun had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.
It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.
The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.