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I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside.
I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.
Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.
I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.
It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.
I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.