- Prove
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020