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Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.
In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.
I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.
The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.
Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.
It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.
I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.
You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
It is [every woman’s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.