#character

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying. ↗

— Gary Oldman

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It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#characters #create #why #you #yourself

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. ↗

— Miranda Otto

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. ↗

— Ovid

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Character is much easier kept than recovered. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#character #god #know #men #men and women

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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