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Character Quotes
"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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"I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character."
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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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"A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character."
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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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"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."
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"There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this."
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"These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character."
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"You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing."
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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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"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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"It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character."
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"I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role."
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"The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch."
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"It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character."
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"Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character."
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"Humble yourself, before you are."
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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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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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"Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do."
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"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
5
"I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things."
5
"From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character."
5
"Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?"
5
"By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that."
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"The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings."
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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
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