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Character Quotes
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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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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"The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible."
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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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"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 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 definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
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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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"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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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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"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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"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 am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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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 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 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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"An array of behavioral decision options establishes opportunities for personal growth. The knowledgeable choices that a person makes in a constantly varying physical setting and capricious social milieu reflect their character, and their evolving personality continues to affect their social and intellectual growth."
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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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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
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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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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."
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"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."
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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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"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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"Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals."
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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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"I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene."
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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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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
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