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It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.
Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.
It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.
I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes
I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.
Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.
The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.
I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!
I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.
By the time Vince McMahon called upon me to become this character, the Million Dollar Man, I had already been wrestling for 12 years.
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.
I am happy with my role in 'Taxiwala.' It gave me a chance to do a character that was fun. I didn't have to agonize over every scene.
I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.
I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would be like to be that person.
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.