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“God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.”

Doe Character Turns Choices Moral Holy Series Innocence Moral Choices

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.”

Book Character Stories Driven

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Book Character Jobs Guy Clean Casts Bored Detectives Slate Gals Clean Slate So Bored

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.”

Character

Author:Dick Schaap

“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.”

Knows Should Character Hate Difficult Answers Fiction Moral I Hate Bloody Dilemma Moral Dilemma

Author:Pat Barker

“I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.”

Years Firsts Two Character Drawing Two Years Two Year Olds

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.”

Giving Trying Character Evil Next Realizing Pleasure Yield Next Time Defects Transient Try Your Best Defects Of Character

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”

Way Firsts Two Character Stories Past Novel Research My Way

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.”

Character Stories Individual Comedy Approach Stakes

Author:Seth Gordon

“A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.”

Character Film Space Comedy Mines Office Hangover Office Space

Author:Seth Gordon

“I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.”

Want Character Props

Author:Will Gluck

“I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.”

Character Situation

Author:Will Gluck

“I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!”

Character Backgrounds

Author:Breaux Greer

“The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred.”

World Years I Can Character Stories Lasts Force Bits Involved Because I Can Cerebral

Author:Jason Gann

“One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.”

Ifs Want Character Running Disappear Backgrounds

Author:Katie Leung

“In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.”

Way Looks Character Innocent Shy Auditions Naive Ethnicity Connotation

Author:Katie Leung

“One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.”

People Writing Long Matter Character Fiction Long Time

Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg

“I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.”

Thinking Wells Doe Character Shows Television Evolve

Author:Mike O'Malley

“The actors I admire are character actors.”

Character Actors Admire Character Actors

Author:Chaske Spencer

“There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.”

Humans Character Draws Theater Finished Accomplished Human Experience

Author:Sada Thompson

“Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.”

Humans Persons Character One Thing Just One Fascinating

Author:Sada Thompson

“If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.”

Ifs Feels Looks Play Character Body Roles Vary Reborn

Author:Toni Trucks

“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

Needs Different Sometimes Character Actors Boundaries Admire Characteristics Different Things

Author:Bonnie Wright

“My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.”

World Character Stories Novel Imagine Happened Goes On My Favorite Really Great

Author:J.H. Wyman

“Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.”

Character Actors Known Character Actors

Author:Jess Weixler

“If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.”

People Ifs Character Corners

Author:Graham Yost

“The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.”

Hard Character Used Literature Fiction Drinking Newspapers Used To Be

Author:Waverley Root

“We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.”

Men Character Leadership Capacity Willingness Select Overload

Author:Clarence Benjamin Jones

“Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.”

Way Firsts Looks Character Used Names Situation Novel Lists Brands Toms Brand Names

Author:Peter York

“Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.”

Firsts Character Film Keys Gay Musical Casts Pops British Managers Fixed Dramatic Components Cliffs Harvey Bongos

Author:Peter York

“While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.”

Hard Character Easy Originals Originality

Author:John Landis Mason

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

Different Character America Values Social Born Work Movement Promise Majority Traditional 80s Outlook Social Movements

Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”

May Mean Character Philosophical Persuasion

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.”

People Thinking Feels Real Character Scene

Author:Jan de Bont

“Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.”

Littles Character

Author:Steve Burton

“The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.”

Character Actors Crazy Tables Complicated Life Experience Your Crazy Crazy Life

Author:Victoria Clark

“OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.”

Ifs Knows Years Character Careers Singers Odd Blair

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.”

Feels Years Character Shows Journey Fans Investment Traveled Blair Fictional Character One Life To Live

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.”

World Way Character Guy Western Athlete Developing Olympics Eastern Bad Guys 1960s Good Guy Western World

Author:Dick Ebersol

“Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.”

Kind Play Character Wanted Mother Capable Tragic Firefly Larger Than Life

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.”

Firsts Play Character Desire Acting Comedy Theater Musical Tragic Opera Musical Theater

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly.”

People Character Dialogue Phrases Scottish Scotsmen

Author:Bill Forsyth

“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.”

Feels Mind Persons Character Feelings Able Film Actors Honest Strange Easier Being Honest Where You Are Strange Things

Author:Marketa Irglova

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

Inspirational Doe Character Wisdom Honor Respect Dignity Clever Deserving Possessing Human Dignity Good Character Personal Dignity Best Character

Author:Aristotle

“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.”

People Whole Moments Character Remember Certain Opportunity Careers Affected

Author:Austin Peck

“A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.”

Important Character Guy Interesting Struggle Screens Internals Bad Guys Duality Good Guy Internal Struggle

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?”

Ifs Feels Firsts Done Character Scripts Interaction Incentives

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.”

Book Character Reading Passionate Finished Brilliant Affirming Blazing Life Affirming

Author:Sophie Thompson

“My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.”

Wells Character Film Fun Roles Creating Lows Tiny Budgets Blonde Rewarding Experiences Creating Characters

Author:Alanna Ubach

“When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.”

Trying Character Roles

Author:Alanna Ubach

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