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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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
- First Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a character I played in 'Love in a Cold Climate' - very like my mother. I asked if I could wear a man's shoes and hat to feed the chickens: all things from her. In fact, every part I play has got an enormous amount of her in it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020