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Character Quotes
"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to."
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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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"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
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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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"I just let the character speak to me and things appear."
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"Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do."
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"Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?"
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"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice."
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"I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character."
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"The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges."
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"You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character."
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"My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production."
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"Humble yourself, before you are."
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"I think all actors are supposed to be character actors."
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"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."
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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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"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
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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 don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up."
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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
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"If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it."
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"What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him."
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"My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in."
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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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"But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character."
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"I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly."
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"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
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"It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character."
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"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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