- Connery
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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.
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- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.
- Being Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020