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Character Quotes
"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
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"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
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"I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others."
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"Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do."
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"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't."
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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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"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
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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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"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
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"I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character."
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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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"The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early."
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"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
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"So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us."
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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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"A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human."
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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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"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
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"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."
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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."
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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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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
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"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
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"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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"Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself."
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"That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy."
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"Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger."
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