#hara

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other. ↗

— Karen Allen

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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#drag #i #literally #onto #performance

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#best #best way #character #color #explain

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ↗

— Antiphanes

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#character #conceives #culture #growing #having

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#chemical #compulsion #disorder #food

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#anybody #anyone #because #care #character

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#actually #bean #certainly #character #difficulty

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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