- Point
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.
- Entertainment Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the entertainment industry became more corporate and MBA-driven, Harvey Weinstein remained an unreconstructed specimen of the worst and most compelling character traits of a truer Hollywood. Harvey, and in a sense only Harvey, continued to embody the Hollywood self.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new.
- Mask
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never play age, you play character.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You feel that your character is special. It's not your normal nine-to-five. You're not someone who goes home and lives a normal life.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020