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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.
- Nature
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People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
- Good
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Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
- Men
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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.
- Distance
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What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
- Enough
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There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
- Great
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My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We knew we'd never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.
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