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I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.
[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
I love fantasy. I love thrillers. I love action. I'm all over the place. As long as the story and characters are good, I'll love it.
Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.
I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.
... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.
Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.