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Character Quotes
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
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"I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?"
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"These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character."
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"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States."
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"It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble."
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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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"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
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"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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"I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring."
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"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
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"The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered."
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"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
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"It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different."
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"I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots."
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"It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor."
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"As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing."
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"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival."
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"I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more."
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"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me."
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"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
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"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
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"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."
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"One's outlook is a part of his virtue."
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"It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest."
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"General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character."
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"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."
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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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"Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it's strength)!!!"
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"I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white."
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"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
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