- Political
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.
- Assumes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
- Nov 07, 2020
Style is the image of character.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020