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Character Quotes
"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
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"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."
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"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
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"Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different."
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"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
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"I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions."
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"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
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"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
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"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
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"Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical."
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"Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance."
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"A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock."
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"I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth...."
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"Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody."
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"It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character."
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"It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was."
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"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
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"Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be."
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"By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that."
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"We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic."
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"In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!"
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"There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character."
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"I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him."
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"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
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"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States."
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"I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more."
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"In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves."
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"You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character."
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"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
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"I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl."
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"I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel."
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"You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done."
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"If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel."
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"The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch."
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"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
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