- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020