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Character Quotes
"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."
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"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."
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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
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"I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing."
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"I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things."
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"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
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"Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus."
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"The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain."
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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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"We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations."
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"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
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"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
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"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."
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"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."
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"Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar."
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"Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."
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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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"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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"When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character."
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"One's outlook is a part of his virtue."
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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
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"Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it."
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"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
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"I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on."
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"I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character."
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"Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions."
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"A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply."
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"I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist."
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"No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do."
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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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