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Character
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Prepare
Some
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
- Aaliyah
Always
My Own
I always try to make each character my own.
- Aaron Lazar
Actor
I'm a character actor.
- Aaron Paul
Other
Almost
The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
- Aaron Sorkin
Same
Same Time
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
- Aasif Mandvi
Years And Years
Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.
- Abbi Jacobson
Always
Going
There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
- Abraham Benrubi
Shadow
Think
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sleep
Fantasy
I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
- Ace Frehley
Like
Even
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
- Adam Driver
Play
Most
The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
- Adam Driver
Will
Faster
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
- Adam West
Create
Play
I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.
- Adhir Kalyan
Plot
Ticket
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
- Aimee Bender
Process
Play
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
- Ajay Naidu
Think
Very
I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.
- Alain de Botton
I Am
Like
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
- Alan Rickman
Playing
Ever
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
- Alan Rickman
Get
Audition
I don't get dressed up as the character to go audition.
- Alan Tudyk
Role
Get
When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
- Alanna Ubach
Subordinate
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Same
Over
I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.
- Alexa Vega
Ideas
Dialogue
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
- Alexander McCall Smith
Business
Like
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- Alexander Pope
Strong
Cool
It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.
- Alexandra Daddario
Same
Leading
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.
- Alfred Molina
Responsibility
Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.
- Ali Fazal
Like
Take
I like to take a character and develop it.
- Alison Lohman
Know
Depends
But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.
- Alison Lohman
Time
Little
I was in character all the time when I was little.
- Allison Williams
Hollywood
Roles
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
- Amber Heard
Measure
Skirt
Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Writing
Sentence
Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
- Amor Towles
Becoming
About
I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
- Amy Carlson
Lot
Films
I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.
- Amy Jackson
Justice
I Am
I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.
- Amy Jackson
Amount
Opens
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.
- Ana Gasteyer
Challenge
Anyone
It's not my character to up and challenge anyone.
- Anderson Silva
Destiny
Act
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
- Andre Maurois
Same
Person
You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.
- Andrew J. West
Like
Lots
I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
- Andrew Lincoln
Love
Agony
If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
- Andrew Lincoln
Young People
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
- Andrew Shue
Play
Desire
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.
- Andy Serkis
Role
Amount
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
- Andy Serkis
Love
Would
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.
- Andy Serkis
Strong
Always
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
- Ang Lee
Means
Half
Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.
- Angus T. Jones
I Am
Looks
Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.
- Anil Kapoor
Loud
Very
My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.
- Anita Hassanandani Reddy
Development
Very
I'm very much about stories that are fast but character development that moves slow.
- Ann Nocenti
Actress
Part
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.
- Annabeth Gish
Get
Actually
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
- Anne Enright
Brainy
Forming
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
Belong
Actor
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
- Anne Parillaud
Love
Tries
What makes us love a character is a character that tries.
- Annette Bening
Crafting
Lot
When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.
- Ansel Elgort
Southern
Across
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
- Anson Mount
About
I Care
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
- Anson Mount
Words
Bad
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
- Anson Mount
Schoolmaster
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
- Antiphanes
Makeup
Mind
Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.
- Anushka Shetty
Play
Difficult
It's easy to play a character, but playing yourself is difficult.
- Anushka Shetty
Discovery
New
Every character, for me, is a new discovery.
- Arjun Kapoor
Golf
Mind
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
- Arnold Palmer
Strength
Strong
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Head
Narrator
The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.
- Arthur Herzog
Same
Some
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
- Arthur Phillips
Guard
His
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Think
I Think
I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.
- Asa Butterfield
Me
Condition
For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.
- Asghar Farhadi
Perfect
Getting
When I get into the shoes of any character, I work on getting the perfect look.
- Ashish Sharma
Play
Actor
The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.
- Ashley Bell
Audience
Volume
Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.
- Ashley Madekwe
Favorite Part
My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
- Ashley Scott
My Own
Own
With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.
- Ashley Tisdale
Actor
I Was Born
I was born a character actor.
- Charles Durning
Necessary
Very
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
- Charles H. Townes
Down
Continuance
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Intellect
His
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.
- Charles Krauthammer
Destiny
Act
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
- Charles Reade
Wedding
Half
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
- Charles Simmons
Drunk
True
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
- Charlie Chaplin
Beginning
Traits
Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.
- Charlie Day
Me
Through
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
Admire
The actors I admire are character actors.
- Chaske Spencer
Start
Repulsive
I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.
- Chester Gould
Play
Basically
Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.
- Chris Farley
More
Contrast
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
- Chris Hemsworth
More
Than
Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.
- Chris Hemsworth
Exploration
More
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
- Chris Hemsworth
Believe
Playing
You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.
- Chris Penn
Find
Take
Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
- Chris Pine
Love
Beauty
Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
- Christian Louboutin
Perfect
Sons
'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.
- Christopher Golden
Me
Deal
I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
- Christopher McCulloch
Will
Drawings
If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
- Chuck Jones
Me
Trait
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
- Chuck Jones
Green
Became
What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'
- CJ Adams
Edge
Like
I like situations that push a character to the edge.
- Claire Cameron
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