- Alone
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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
- Featured
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020