"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."

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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."

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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

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"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."

David Levithan, American Author

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"Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr."

Cassandra Peterson, American Comedian

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"Character is what can do without success."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters-some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."

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"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."

Success

"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."

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"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."

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Circumstance

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."

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"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is."

"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."

"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person."

"Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not miracles."

"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."

"It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed."

"(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen."

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"See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise."

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"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."

"I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy."

"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."