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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.
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I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
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Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
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I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
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For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.
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If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
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I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.
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You need to be able to build a character, you need to have time, you need to have a microphone and be able to talk so people can relate to you.
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You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.
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Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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