Character Quotes - Page 143

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.
Rhianna Pratchett / Writer
Character
Done
Pitching
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Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.
Charlotte Mason / Author
Character
Children
Parent
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Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.
Matt Drudge / Commentator
America
Character
Cutting
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
Robert Menzies / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Blow
British
Character
Law
Noble
Products
Respectable
Rule Of Law
Greatest
Deadly
Suffered
Rule
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I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.
Michael Jackson / Singer-Songwriter
Character
Fun
Real
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Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
Margaret Mahy / Author
Character
Differences
Length
Particular
Vocabulary
Uses
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I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.
Casey Affleck / Actor
Character
Hate
Stew
Thinking
Character Hate Me
Audition
Develop
Normally
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I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.
Christopher Plummer / Theatre Actor
Bones
Character
Felt
Flesh
Naked
Life Love Always
Life Love Character
Bring
Revealed
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I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.
Samuel L. Jackson / Film Actor
Character
Roles
Support
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Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.
Sherman Alexie / Poet
Beautiful
Character
White
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
Abdul Kalam / Former President Of India
Teacher
Character
Teaching
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
Maya Angelou / Author
Character
Proud
Religious
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
C. L. R. James / Journalist
Leadership
Character
Consciousness
Demand
Proletariat
Demands
Estimated
Signs
Surest
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I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.
John C. Reilly / Actor
Character
Easier
Luxury
Preparation
Time Character Always
Discover
Small
Leading
Small Part
Takes
Ways
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For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts, and let it happen naturally. I write what I feel.
Chevy Stevens / Author
Character
Feelings
Writing
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I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
Donnie Yen / Actor
Character
Cop
Gun
Background
Context
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That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.
Rebecca Romijn / Actress
Character
Disappoint
Millions
People
Waiting
Life People True
Brought
Millions Of People
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I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.
Jonathan Weeks /
Book
Character
Memorable
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I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.
Jodie Foster / Actress
Careers
Character
Looks
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People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.
Iris Murdoch / Author
Character
Passion
Thinking
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
Mahesh Babu / Film Actor
Character
Credit
Character Me Way
Aware
Director
Works
Full
Handling
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In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.
Doug Liman / Film Director
Character
Might
Stories
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Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the character and sometimes they really like my ideas and they use them.
Olivia Wilde / Actress
Character
Ideas
Understanding
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The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.
Alex Gibney / Film Director
Believe
Character
Funny Things
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People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
Ashley Judd / Film Actress
Accurate
Character
Environment
Hurt
Responding
Thinking
Me People Hurt
People Say
Unites
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All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.
Joe Johnston / American Film Director
Black And White
Character
Real
Real Character
Unexpected
Page
Script
Text
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I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Character
Play
Thinking
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam /
Future
Good
Teacher
Caliber
Character
Good Teacher
Honour
Individual
Noble
People
Profession
Remember
Remember Me
Shapes
Teaching
Will
Very
Me
Biggest
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The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.
Charles Fillmore / Unity Church
Art
Imagination
Character
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Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
Hayley Mills / Film Actress
Character
Losing
Performing
Protection
Safety
Shy
Stage
Typical
Adolescent
Became
Minded
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When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.
Mila Kunis / Actress
Character
Drama
Play
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Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a part of his earnings; to spend wisely and well; to save, but not hoard.
Neville Chamberlain / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Art
Work
Character
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
Kate Beckinsale / Actress
Action
Character
Firing
Gun
Party
Sunglasses
Unusual
Why
Apparently
Characters
Scenes
Trick
Wear
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I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they're in or why they make certain choices, then you can get behind them.
Christian Cooke / Actor
Character
Choices
Thinking
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
Adam Johnson / Novelist
Book
Character
Novel
Single Person
Sixty
Years
Where Character World
Character World Person
Center
Literary
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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!
Gwen Stefani / Singer-Songwriter
Mom
Character
Children
Messed Up
Wonderland
Totally
Alice
Cinderella
Messed
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By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.
Gordon S. Wood / Professor
Character
Dark
Writing
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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
Arthur Schopenhauer / Philosopher
Men
Character
Personality
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
Douglas Macarthur / Military Officer
Character
Flesh
Lasts
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The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford / Film Actor
Character
Dirty
Feet
Mud
Naughty
Suffocating
Character Yourself Your
Inch
Issue
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It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.
Paris Hilton / Actress
Character
Hurt
Thinking
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I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
Charlize Theron / Actress
Character
Looks
Thinking
Charlize Theron
Much Attention
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The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.
Malcolm Muggeridge / Journalist
New York
Character
Grace
People
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I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.
Kevin Durand / Actor
Character
Hero
Way
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My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
Anthony Hopkins / Actor
Dad
Character
Father
Iron
Tough
Loved
Cruel
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You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.
Johnny Depp / Actor
Character
Laughing
Littles
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On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.
Sylvester Stallone / Actor
Character
Elements
May
Surprise
Element
Explore
First One
Sequel
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Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
David Tang / Businessman
Believe
Chairman
Chairman Mao
Character
China
Fewer
Half
Mao
Strokes
Writing
Believing
Enable
Introduced
More People
Simplified
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
Martin Luther / Monk
Character
Devil
Goes On
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And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan
Steve Kluger / Author
Biographies
Character
Musical
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