- Together
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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
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want to play him, your movie will not get made.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
- Extraordinary Things
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- Nov 07, 2020