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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
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
- Fatalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
- English School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I do with any script is read it and try to visualize if I can play the character - if I can feel what the character's feeling.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.
- Nov 07, 2020