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Character Quotes
"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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"I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there."
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"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."
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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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"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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"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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"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
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"It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character."
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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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"I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them."
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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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"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."
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"If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character."
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"I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me."
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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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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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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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"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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"Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices."
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"I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!"
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"The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character."
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"I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character."
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"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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"A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them."
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"When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean."
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