- People
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.
- Fascinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like 'People' and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.
- Complex
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
With shows like 'The X-Files' or 'Eerie, Indiana' - even though they would have comedic moments, even though they would have character moments - there was a sincerity about magic.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not a lot of people get to say, ‘I'm a cartoon character.'
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your true character coming out, and I was definitely tested.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every young person needs to have a character that they can identify with and feel included by.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are strong. We are strong because we are used to the pain which comes every month. It forms character. I want to see the man who goes to the Parliament with the belly puffed out. They can't do it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020