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Character Quotes
"My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character."
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"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
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"Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself."
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"Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others."
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"I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me."
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"All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face."
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"I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight."
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"I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them."
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"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
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"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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"It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character."
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"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
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"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."
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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."
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"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."
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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."
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"I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?"
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"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns."
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"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"
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"Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you."
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"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
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"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
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"What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows."
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"Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do."
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"I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character."
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"I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse."
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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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