- Me
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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
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is what a man is in the dark.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.
- Caliber
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just be the same character forever. You've got to add some layers, show some personality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020