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Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.
That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Dan Harmon has this idea that characters on TV are allowed to talk about their favorite movies and TV shows and songs.
I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.
There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.
If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Obviously, there will be different character traits in the dressing room, but I'm there to bring happiness and a smile.
Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.
I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy.
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.
You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.