Characters Quotes

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It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how… — Graeme Murphy
None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting. — Anna Paquin
I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing… — Ian Mckellen
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. — Thomas Jefferson
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this… — Albert Einstein
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a… — Samuel L. Jackson
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. — Alphonse Karr
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. — Frank Bruno
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. — Elihu Burritt
We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think… — Michael Josephson
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. — Seneca the Younger
Our characters are the result of our conduct. — Aristotle
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote… — Ernst Mayr
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad… — Mao Zedong
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we… — Joseph Joubert
Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to… — Issa Rae
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to… — Dana Carvey

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