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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
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It's not always thematic. I wanted to do 'The Grinch' because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was.
- Drafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.
- Nov 07, 2020