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I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances with a character or scene.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican,' but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.
I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil as you can get!
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about.
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.
Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.
I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.