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“The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.”

“I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.”

Thinking Should Mean Character Versions Symbols

Author:Grant Morrison

“Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.”

Book Character Lasts Novel Changed Aspect Eternity Recognition Comic Comic Book Merchandising Book Characters Comic Book Characters

Author:Grant Morrison

“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.”

Feels Littles Persons Made I Can Enough Play Character Guy Opportunity Given Bits Acting Boys Little Bit Good Enough Bad Guys Good Person Posters

Author:Gucci Mane

“I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?”

Ifs Knows Feels Play Character Fans Clubs Jam

Author:Gucci Mane

“Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.”

Play Character Actors Loathe

Author:Ian McShane

“Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.”

Kind Different Character Theater Different Kinds Rawness

Author:Ian McShane

“You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.”

Character Shows Guy Voice Tvs Tv Shows Animated Animated Movies

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.”

Made Book Character Stories Kids My Own Huge Crosses Cards Comic Comic Book Files Librarian Collectors

Author:James Mangold

“I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.”

Looks Made Book Character Actors Built Mad Comic Comic Book

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.”

People Way Character Difficult Novel Journey Female Impact Features Undertakings Protagonists Personal Journey

Author:Juliet Marillier

“First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.”

World Firsts Persons Character Stories Journey Share Reader Deeper Insight Focused Suits First Person Protagonists Personal Journey

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.”

Thinking Persons Character Stories Running Thirds Structure Complexes Various Deeper Exploration Thread Misunderstanding Parallels Third Person

Author:Juliet Marillier

“I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.”

Stills Character Mess Shy

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Play Character Boring Irritating

Author:Nick Moran

“I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.”

Way Trying Character Actors Nasty

Author:Peter Mullan

“I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.”

Want Feels Character Jobs Strong Really Great Better Jobs Strong Character Laying Down

Author:Scoot McNairy

“It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.”

Want Firsts Character Common Class Comfort All Things Including Satisfied Luxury Latter Urgent First Class

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.”

Men Way Character Actors Brands Profile Character Actors High Profile

Author:Alfred Molina

“I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.”

Character Remember Fans

Author:Alfred Molina

“My character is not flawless.”

Character Flawless

Author:Breckin Meyer

“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'”

Character Hate Reading I Hate Green Scripts Description Jamie Cornered Offbeat

Author:Breckin Meyer

“I've always played characters that were younger than myself.”

Character

Author:Carey Mulligan

“My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.”

Giving Persons Character Jobs Give Me Shame Loud Outrageous Uncompromising Mcqueen Mulligans

Author:Carey Mulligan

“TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.”

Knows Want Years Hard Play Character Film Know How Hell Tvs Hard Work Murder Range Survived Angela

Author:Christopher Meloni

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

Character Happiness Liberty Virtue Honesty Integrity Ethics Conscience Good Christmas Sarcastic Founding Fathers Democracy Polymaths

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

Character Loses Leadership Deeds Reputation Good Deeds Good Reputation Deeds Done Kind Deeds Bad Reputation Image And Reputation Continual Growth

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.”

Trying Character

Author:Denise Mina

“I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.”

Ifs Thinking Years Character

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.”

Knows I Can Character Grace Enjoyed Crew Camaraderie

Author:Eric McCormack

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Character Wisdom Virtue Honesty Ignorance Integrity Temples Doorstep Knowledge And Wisdom Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.”

Thinking Kind Stills Different Done Character Fun Seeing Crowds Ballparks

Author:Frank Miller

“Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'”

Men Want Character Use Would Be Kids Scripts Fats Parks Attorney Mayors Imposing Pompous

Author:Fred Melamed

“Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.”

Littles Done Character School Acting Theater Independent Australian

Author:Jacqueline McKenzie

“I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.”

Character Dark

Author:Tony Vincent

“All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.”

Character Actors Fun Sides Fun Things

Author:Vince Vaughn

“In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.”

Thinking Real Whole Character Hurt Known New York Couple Circumstances Shoes Whole Life Real Life Barefoot

Author:Allison Williams

“My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.”

Men Whole Character Animal Acting Backgrounds Fats Suits Costumes Diagrams Overlapping

Author:Allison Williams

“People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.”

People Thinking Wells Play Character Thick Brighter

Author:Kevin Whately

“All my characters have playlists.”

Character Playlists

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.”

Character Music Is

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.”

Character Today Comfortable Remembered Wire Omar

Author:Michael K. Williams

“My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.”

Character Father Husband My Husband Strength Of Character

Author:Olivia Williams

“Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.”

Way Long Made Book Character Happens Lists Fascinating Long Ago

Author:Randy Wayne White

“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Character Stories Body Ability Judgment Mark Hearing Smell Actresses Louisiana

Author:Rebecca Wells

“The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.”

Knows Character Stories America Performing American Character

Author:Rebel Wilson

“There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.”

Needs Character Names News Sake Smear Campaigns

Author:Ricky Williams

“I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.”

Character Care Games Player Personality Development Proud Relate

Author:Roberta Williams

“Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.”

Character Song

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.”

World Feels Book Character Shows School Girl Cities New York College Brown Gossip New York City Reluctant Yale Nyu Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

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