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Character Quotes
"It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way."
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"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."
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"Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures."
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"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
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"A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue."
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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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"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness."
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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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"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
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"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character."
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"Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage " to be oneself, no matter what others might say."
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"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
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"I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme."
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"Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness."
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"If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?"
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
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"What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct."
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"A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock."
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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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"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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"There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another."
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"At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin."
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"As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character."
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"I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven."
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"If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged."
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"You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really."
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"What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great."
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