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“When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.”

Want Character Stories Differences Type Directors Making A Difference Arcs Sync

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I look for characters that are fun and that I'm going to have fun playing. By the way, that's whether it's drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That's the bottom line.”

Way Want Looks Character Action Fun Lines Comedy Drama Bottom Having Fun Sci Fi Bottom Line

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Character Stories Fun Appeals

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.”

Feels Character Able Film Actors Environment Safe Experiments Atmosphere Emma Nolan

Author:Christopher Nolan

“With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.”

World Way Looks Different Character Goal Differences Figures Different Ways

Author:Tony Scott

“These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.”

Thinking Knows Mean Has Beens Character Shows Film Lines Dark Interesting Type Exciting Boring Unreliable Narrators

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“For me it's about the character, not as much about the genre of it [movie]. I'm excited that I get to work and play interesting characters and I'm not just the girl who gets to play the girlfriend or the wife. I get to play real women who have struggles and troubles and passions and that's always what I hope to do no matter what format that lies in.”

Real Matter Play Character Lying Girl Passion Interesting Struggle Wife Trouble No Matter What Excited Genre Girlfriend Format Interesting Characters Real Women Work And Play

Author:Ali Larter

“We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.”

Character Care Actors Horse Singers Get Up Performers Who Cares Beating A Dead Horse

Author:Bob Dylan

“When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.”

Whole Character Spirit Style Rap Reggae Rap Music Reggae Music

Author:Snoop Dogg

“I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.”

Kind Character Actors Stage Needed

Author:Morgan Freeman

“There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.”

Character Approach Lovely Interpretation

Author:Rose Leslie

“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.”

Thinking Mind Looks Doe Important Play Character Spirit Example Female Important Things Great Things Superhero Sexiness

Author:Jessica Chastain

“I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.”

I Can Play Character Voice Can Do Transformation Accents

Author:Jessica Chastain

“I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.”

Character Actors Goal Lucky Disappear

Author:Jessica Chastain

“Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.”

Character Clinton

Author:Carl Bernstein

“Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's character. I loved her so much I hit her again; that's even more character.”

Heart Soul Character Drama Contradiction Heart And Soul

Author:Paul Schrader

“The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.”

Feels I Can Character Funny Things Deep Inside

Author:Paul Auster

“In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.”

Real Hard Play Character Film Games Class Watches Morning Middle Television Balls Real Life Restaurants Middle Class Lunch Competent Practise Ball Games Clarinet Middle Class Life

Author:Woody Allen

“I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Character Helping Actors Roles Written Becoming Pages Casting

Author:Scott Michael Foster

“Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing.”

Way Feels Important Character Feelings Certain Black Stage Performers Jeans Jackets Leather Wardrobe Leather Jackets

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”

Knows Character Form Influence Communication Determined Inevitable Unconscious Mechanism Physiological

Book:Raymond Or Life And Death

Source: Raymond Or Life And Death

“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.”

Thinking Character Kids Together Form Stuff Can Do Pieces Color Shapes Hot Paint Painter Tone Fooled Neckties

Author:John French Sloan

“I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.”

People Trying Heart Book Soul Character Stories My Heart Heart And Soul

Author:Nick Simmons

“The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace.”

Humans Children Character Individual Space Grace Tendencies Formulas Mediocrity Sheep Oblivion Hateful Systematic Human Society Stumps Popular Education

Author:N. C. Wyeth

“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.”

Character Wanted My Own Study Subjects Paint Portraits Portraiture

Author:William Dobell

“The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.”

Art Real Character Artist Alive Subjects Stress Strive Caricatures Portraiture Real Artists

Author:William Dobell

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

World Want Long Character Stories Literature Given Ability Chains Agents Host Publishers Librarian Booksellers

Author:Karl Marlantes

“There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.”

Humans Art Real Moments Character Lying Human Beings Darkness Lovely Decent Suspects Glimpse Twisted Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Martin McDonagh

“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.”

Book Character Film Actors Perfect Type Needed Directors Doctors Hollywood Presses Lawyer Agents Casting Laborers Rosters

Author:Richard Condon

“You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.”

Ifs Character Jobs Lasts Term Casts Meat Gentleman Benign Cleaver

Author:Ben Cross

“Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.”

People Mind Wells States Character Cities State Of Mind Exposed Rootedness

Author:M. K. Asante

“I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.”

Reason Character Morning Get Up Plot

Author:Peter Temple

“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”

Character Poor Treats Accused

Book:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Source: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.”

People Way Looks Children Character Eye Speak Given Parent Results Demand Authority Stress Angry Reactions Back When Good Character

Author:Roy Masters

“Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.”

Way Humans Character Bigs Evil Human Beings Existence Magic Casts Good And Evil Fascinating Evil Characters

Book:The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel

Source: The Girl on the Cliff: A Novel

“In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.”

Character Used Song Behinds Attention Fictional Character

Author:Mika

“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.”

“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.”

Way Made Character Guy Decision Interesting Mistake Watches Type Areas Capacity Bunch Classic Gray Most Interesting Gray Area Antiheroes

Author:Kurt Sutter

“I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.”

“You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.”

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Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Character calls forth character.”

Character

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.”

World Years Mean Ideas Character Strong Wonder Impossible Treats Arise Great Idea Strong Character

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.”

Men World Humans Different Character Certain Human Beings Position Goodness Direct Relation Average Intuition Sensual

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.”

“The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.”

Made Soul Character Stage Ready Higher Agents Features Faculty Conception Display Utterance

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.”

People Thinking Wells Character Poor Fiction Known Gossip Well Known Columns Good Character Poor Character

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.”

Ifs Wells Play Character Together Effects Produce Speech Essentials Finished Tragic Plot Strings Incidents Expressive Diction Playwriting

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.”

Character Purpose Virtue Connected Tokens

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”

May Character Moral Lays Carrie Speakers Sovereign Persuasion Credible Efficacy Moral Character Probity

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.”

Way Mean Said Reason Character Certain Three Prove Species Speakers Appearing Persuading

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

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