- 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
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that the audience can identify with.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Green Lantern' seems a little calculated to me. It's like, 'We've got to get on this gay bandwagon and make this character gay.' Like anything else, there's earnest expressions in the culture and then there's kind of bandwagoning.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020