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“When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.”

World Wells Character Dream Consciousness Events Built Delight Oppression Awake Outcomes Peril Scenery

Author:Richard Bach

“Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.”

Character Wall Harder Storytelling

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.”

Wells Character Maturity Going Away Scar Fades Caution

Book:The Pregnancy Test

Source: The Pregnancy Test

“The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.”

Knows Character Speak Voice Watches Novelists Constructs

Author:Andre Gide

“A man without enemies is a man without character.”

Men Character Enemy

Author:Paul Newman

“If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.”

Ifs Mind Persons Character Grows Successful Being Successful Strength Of Character Successful Person Anything And Everything

Author:T. Harv Eker

“Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.”

Firsts Character Seems America Quality Building Forgiving Block Telling The Truth Building Blocks

Author:Mona Charen

“People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.”

People Play Character Evil Asking Underwear Bad Character

Author:Dennis Hopper

“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.”

People Firsts Littles Said Character Bigs Guy Enjoy Answers Doors Stage Brother Mets Band Died Moved Legends Excess Brothers And Sisters Garage Legendary Hendrix

Author:Alice Cooper

“If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.”

Ifs Character Hurt Abandoned Betrayed Meaningfulness

Author:Krystal

“In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.”

Heart Character Remember Journey Tears Shed Encouraging Heartless People In Your Life Mean People Words Of Encouragement Insensitive Meeting New People Heartlessness

Author:Krystal

“I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.”

Want Feels Character My Own Break Busy Believer Going Out Fortnight

Author:Nigella Lawson

“Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.”

Character Circumstances

Book:Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar

Source: Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.”

World Humans Real Character Helping Shows School Reading Human Beings Forgotten Saint Pursue Around The World Sinner Traveler Changing Your Life Rough Times

Book:The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Source: The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

“I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.”

Trying Character Levels Fascinated Intrigued

Author:Terry McMillan

“But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me.”

People Thinking Want Giving Writing I Can Different Character Able Individual Walks Listening Concern Window Patient Walks Of Life

Author:Daniel Mason

“There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.”

Writing I Can Character Romance Can Do Fantasy Mystery Drama Genre Dragons Plus Good Character

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.”

Character Voice Attitude Seeing Visuals

Author:Frank Welker

“A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.”

Character Film Deals Costumes Silhouettes

Author:Clemence Poesy

“To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.”

Character Loses Judgment

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.”

Character Opposites Who I Am

Author:Maiara Walsh

“Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.”

People Ifs Knows Doe Character Jobs Three Differences Accepting Folks

Author:Powers Boothe

“I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.”

Littles Character Sides Female Witch Female Characters

Author:Madchen Amick

“I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.”

Thinking Way Kind Character Stuff Watches Drama My Favorite Driven

Author:Jacinda Barrett

“Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.”

I Can Character Stories Opportunity Perfect Fans Mom Incredibles Casts Agents Yes I Can

Author:Alaina Huffman

“A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.”

Men World Character Home Life Is Tomorrow Discipline Lessons Battle Sacred Retiring Weary Toil Peril Alarms Sanctuary Schooled True Home

Author:J.R. Miller

“The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.”

People Mind Heart Character Beautiful Influence Hopeful Helpful Contagious Pollyanna

Book:Pollyanna

Source: Pollyanna

“Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.”

Ends Character Changed Toes

Author:Julie McNiven

“When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.”

Character Stories Able Film Development Periods

Author:Alexander Gould

“Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!”

People Writing Ends Character Drama Theatre Horrible Psychological Thrillers Horrible Things Weird People

Author:Joseph Mazzello

“I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.”

Character Introspective Antisocial

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.”

Different Character Actors Fun Grows Roots Envious Different Characters Deep Roots

Author:Jaime Ray Newman

“I love the Walking Dead, but I dont wanna be an actual prominent character on the show. I just wanna be a zombie.”

Character Shows Walking Zombie Prominent Walking Dead

Author:Liana Liberato

“There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.”

Character Fall Easy Numbers Falling In Love Carrie Diaries Quirky Easy To Fall In Love

Author:Brendan Dooling

“If I love the character, then thats all that matters to me. It doesnt really matter what genre it is.”

Ifs Matter Character Genre

Author:Olivia Cooke

“All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.”

Thinking Feels Enough Character Actors Wonder Roles Good Enough

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Character Spiritual Perspective Comfortable Having Hope

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Different Play Character Order Actors Movie Restraining Restraining Orders

Author:Ryan Gosling

“You never play age, you play character.”

Play Character Age

Author:Michael Steger

“I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'”

Character Acting Roles Broke Winner Latino Montana Casanova Hannah Montana

Author:Michael Steger

“I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.”

Knows Play Character Able

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Character Stories Jobs Actors Fit Somali

Author:Barkhad Abdi

“I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.”

Thinking Knows Kind Character Journey Personal Journey

Author:Ryan Gosling

“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.”

Character Next Rooms Enemy Worst Type Eating Research Google Fabulous Orange My Best Friend Visiting Worst Enemy

Author:Liane Moriarty

“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.”

“I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.”

Character Dream Wanted Film Strong Roles Growing Up Taken Growing Tvs Pride Prejudice Theatre Involving Strong Character

Author:Roxanne McKee

“I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.”

Play Character Playlists

Author:Adhir Kalyan

“All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.”

Years Has Beens Character Inspiration Able Turns Actors Loses Dramatic

Author:Adhir Kalyan

“I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.”

Character Guy Entrepreneurial Felicity Business Minded

Author:Greg Grunberg

“Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.”

Thinking Character Moving Growing Up Growing Enjoyed Angst

Author:Magda Apanowicz

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