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My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.
I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.
I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing."
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.
One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy.
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.
Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.
A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.
In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.
All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.
With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.
There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.