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Character Quotes
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."
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"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."
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"Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own."
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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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"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
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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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"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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"I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me."
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character."
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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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"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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"But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too."
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"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
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"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
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"Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level."
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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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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."
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"You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in."
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"In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes."
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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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"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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"It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp."
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"My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character."
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"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual."
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"It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character."
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"This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character."
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"I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into."
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"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals."
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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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