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“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.”

“People think I'm a Simpsons character.”

People Thinking Character

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question about the nature of these comic book characters and the nature of this particular character, and whether sexuality, race, any of those things makes any difference to the character of Peter Parker.”

Kind Book Character Differences Race Particular Gay Sexuality Comic Dramatic Logical Peter Comic Book Bisexual Hypothetical Book Characters Peter Parker Comic Book Characters

Author:Andrew Garfield

“Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.”

Believe Persons Character Might Individual Quality Redeeming Spiteful Redeeming Qualities

Author:David Boreanaz

“As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.”

Ifs Looks Character Happens Jobs Actors Challenges Struggle Vulnerability Avenues Challenge Yourself

Author:David Boreanaz

“I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.”

People Character Easy Challenges Interesting

Author:Julian McMahon

“Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.”

Play Character Fun Elements Who I Am Playing Yourself

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you have and understand and have a going in, then the more complex your character and the understanding of your character will be.”

Thinking Way Character Stuff Understanding Materials Complexes Best Way Osmosis

Author:Shailene Woodley

“A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.”

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Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.”

Writing Character Television Best Character

Author:Ioan Gruffudd

“All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.”

People Way Trying Made Different Real Character Facts Stories Reading Language Powerful Different Ways Different Peoples

Author:John Green

“You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.”

Ifs Littles Moments Character Shows Bits Integrity Protect Findings Little Bit Tired Stressed Right Moment

Author:Dianna Agron

“Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.”

Character Fancy Plot

Author:Michael Connelly

“The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.”

People Thinking Wells Book Character Might Guy Sticks Come Up Plot This Guy Static

Author:Michael Connelly

“I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.”

Hard Character Strong Can Do Comic Strong Love

Author:Amy Hoggart

“I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.”

Thinking Trying Character Fun Personality Heroic Twists

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.”

Knows Writing Stills Character My Own Consciousness Happened Exploration Examination

Author:Karen Walker

“In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.”

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Author:Trina Robbins

“Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.”

People Looks Character Draws Disney Character

Author:Trina Robbins

“It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something I had to learn because I'd never been in that atmosphere. But I think I had a quick learning curve, because this is the job I was supposed to have.”

Thinking Ideas Different Character Stories Jobs Voice Rooms Atmosphere Curves Conferences Shouting Different Characters Learning Curve

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I like to hide behind the characters I play.”

Play Character Behinds

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.”

Thinking Persons Play Character Able Film Picks Genre Best Person I Am The Best

Author:Rain

“When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.”

Thinking Years Humans Littles Character Song Humanity House Bits Perfect Our Lives Little Bit Relation Relate Human Relations Nudge

Author:Corey Taylor

“You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.”

Needs Character Independent Independence

Author:Mike Tyson

“Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.”

Littles Whole Character Opinion Written Argument Conservative Whole Life Idiotic

Author:Ann Coulter

“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.”

Sometimes Character Three Actors Four Week Months Credit Spending Lead In Character Actors

Author:Steve Buscemi

“The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.”

Persons Character Color Skins

Author:Michael Jackson

“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.”

Character Kids Action Guy Term Natural Comedy Adventure Males Wrestling Extensions Wayne Macho

Author:Hulk Hogan

“I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating characters, so it's not up for grabs.”

Thinking Feels Writing Looks Philosophy Character Natural Huge Ocean Wave Rolling Overwhelmed

Author:Mel Brooks

“When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.”

People Knows Want Needs Should Writing Character Stories Action Grows Worry Scripts Plot Main Characters

Author:Mel Brooks

“The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are like this ("A Few Good Men"), central to the idea of the movie.”

People Way Firsts Ideas Play Character Actors Roles Calling Relish Character Actors

Author:Jack Nicholson

“For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.”

Book Ideas Sometimes Character Stories Events Currents No Idea Discussion Topics Current Events

Author:Sandra Brown

“Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.”

Men Should Character Sex Differences Equal Men And Women All Things Males Old Fashioned Flawed Neanderthals

Author:Sandra Brown

“Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.”

Thinking Writing Humans Mean Character Problem Would Be Human Beings Perfect Personality Love Life Superpower Family Problems Money Problem

Author:Stan Lee

“I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.”

Thinking Different Character Helping Home Stuff Acting Depth Deeper Different Characters

Author:Chris Tucker

“Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.”

World Done Character Stories Happens Stuff Magic Figures Theater Work Done Stuff Happens

Author:Michael Shannon

“There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season - 13 or 26 episodes, whatever it might be - than in the course of one two-hour movie. You can do so many more novelistic kinds of things on a TV show - with time, with gradual development of relationships, and so on - than you could possibly do in a movie. And that is very appealing.”

Kind Two Ideas Character Stories Shows Might Courses Can Do Hours Tvs Development Seasons Episodes Tv Shows

Author:Michael Chabon

“It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.”

Writing Trying Character Actors Fit Easier Imaginary

Author:Michael Schur

“Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.”

Way Feels Character Hate Challenges Jokes Repeats Innovative Snob Recurring

Author:Ana Gasteyer

“I actually like character work, so for me, generally speaking, I enjoy it. It's a little bit more of a comfortable suit you put back on. You can explore it and have fun with it and push the limits of it.”

Littles Character Fun Bits Enjoy Limits Comfortable Little Bit Suits Having Fun Suits You

Author:Ana Gasteyer

“There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.”

Feels Two Ends Play Character Night Hours Half Like You Periods Truck Half Hours

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.”

Said Character Fun Building Fine Miserable Character Building

Author:Diana Krall

“There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.”

Kind Character Certain Areas Punk Taboo

Author:Richard Hell

“Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that I possess a better comprehension of its character than do these men who have only to deal with it in the field of literature.”

Men Ideas Character Literature Deals Fields Germany Fancy Soviet Peril Comprehension

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.”

Ifs Thinking Character Feelings Home Eye Individual Virtue Land Intellectual Connections Connected Arise Locals Perceive Native Attachment Native Land Birthplace Topography Birth Place

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.”

People Feels Character Plot Devices Stereotype Cliche Screenplays

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.”

Source: The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape

“Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

Has Beens Soul Character Beautiful Virtue Sweet Duty Honor Conscience Enthusiasm Sufficient Accomplished

Author:Madame de Stael

“The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.”

Matter Hard Character Belief Honesty Keys Politician Tests Score Disagree What Matters Key To Success Pundits Treating Others Test Scores Treating Others With Respect

Author:Hal Urban

“The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.”

People Knows Character Jobs Faces Media Harder Disbelief

Author:Vera Farmiga