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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.
The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within. — © Plautus
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.
I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.
I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing. — © Gillian Anderson
When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.
Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.
An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.
A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties and problems are going to be faced by anyone at any age. When people hear about teenage parents and teenage pregnancy, they attribute a lot of personality traits to those individuals, which is just such a bizarre thing when you really think about it. Like, how does age and circumstance equate to some kind of personality trait?
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.
If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.
What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.
One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.
In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.
I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character. — © Christian McKay
It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.
That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.
I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept. — © Jessica Mitford
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should be a central character and it should make an impact.
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.
Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.
I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.
My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.
Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.
My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
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