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“I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.”

Knows Littles Character Helping Focus Help Me Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.”

Knows Needs Character Actors Backgrounds

Author:John Noble

“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.”

Knows Way Ends Matter Character Stories Interesting Crime Committed Boring Plot Just Being Entertainers

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.”

Knows Character Huge Unique Dreamer Flavor

Author:Nick Offerman

“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.”

People Knows Trying Years Wells Character Feelings Might Journalist Listeners Good Writers

Author:Louise Penny

“One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.”

Knows Years Wells Character Television Benefits

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

Knows Looks Kind Sometimes Play Character Fun Enjoy Worry Comedy Too Much Risk Deluded Physical Comedy Worrying Too Much

Author:Amy Poehler

“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.”

Ifs Knows Should Character Body Would Be Moving Careers Shapes Concerned Athlete Looking Good Getting In Shape

Author:Aidan Quinn

“As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.”

Knows Want Different Character Actors Interesting Inspired Interesting Characters

Author:Kelly Reilly

“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

Knows Sometimes Character Moving Young Waiting Water Wife Fronts Instance Farms Yards Moving Away

Author:Ron Rash

“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”

Knows Play Character Fall Easy Know How Five Television Goes On Walking Scene Seasons Assuming Boring Tricky

Author:John Slattery

“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.”

Ifs Knows I Can Character Stories Happens Actors Felt Behinds Involved Scene Personal Life Get Involved Behind The Scenes

Author:Eric Stoltz

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.”

People Knows Wells Done Character Kids Levels Rooms Darkness Comedy Complexes Relate Complexity De Niro Complex Characters Believability

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.”

Knows Way Whole Character Film Arcs

Author:Sissy Spacek

“My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.”

People Knows Want Character Successful Fans

Author:Tila Tequila

“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

Knows Writing Trying Heart Real Character Relate Performers Being Real

Author:Uma Thurman

“I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.”

People Knows Matter Character Bigs Core Truthful

Author:Lesley Ann Warren

“If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.”

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Author:Marguerite Young

“All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.”

Knows Needs Giving Writing Character Goal

Author:J.A. Konrath

“What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Reason Character Responsible No Reason

Author:Max Landis

“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”

People Thinking Knows World Character Our World

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”

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Author:Chris Messina

“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?”

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Author:Gucci Mane

“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.”

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Author:Christopher Meloni

“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 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

“If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.”

Ifs Knows Character Months Six Six Months Programmers Basics Onions Submarines

Author:Joel Spolsky

“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Character Names Sound Struggle Trouble Findings Letters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.”

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Author:Reggie White

“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.”

Knows Years Children Made Character Unique Our Children Excitement

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.”

Knows Character Seems Language Sound Pages Plot Rude Juvenile Adverbs

Author:Colum McCann

“One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.”

Knows Character Pet Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Glenn Howerton

“When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.”

Ifs Knows Writing Character Actors Projects Approach Lists Standpoint Adjectives

Author:Omari Hardwick

“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.”

People Knows Way Ideas Character Difficult Circumstances Who You Are Tested Difficult Circumstances

Author:Erich Hoeber

“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.”

Thinking Knows Feels Long Book Character Dream Novel Know How Air Towns Breaths Never Quit Undone Unwritten Hovering Book Of Disquiet Prologue

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“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

“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

“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

Knows Character Moral Awareness Good Character Good Love Moral Strength

Author:Thomas Lickona

“One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.”

Knows World Way Character Habit Behavior Patterns Thyself Responding Habitual Know Thyself

Author:Thomas Lickona

“Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.”

Knows Believe Persons Character Used Style Personality Who You Are Possession Substance Charisma

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

Knows World Humans Character Nature Half Strength Human Nature Arms Weakness Blue Instance Poison Pockets Verses Grotesque Vigilant Resolute Strength And Weakness Stockings Haughty

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.”

Knows Want Hard Character Dies Actors Loses Like You

Author:Michael Loceff

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

Ifs Knows Way Book Different Whole Character Actors Easy Views Written Easier Scene Draws Let Me Prepared Scripts Warm Point Of View Brilliant Enjoyed Accents Let Me Go Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I'd love to do a Paul Greengrass movie, or something like that, that's a character-driven action film. I'd like someone to make me go to the gym every day, and all that stuff. I don't know. Wherever the good characters are, I tend to try to get a job. It was nice because this was dipping my toe in the action genre. Maybe I might put my foot in, next time.”

Knows Trying Character Might Action Jobs Film Next Stuff Nice Feet Driven Genre Gym Next Time Toes Good Character Action Films

Author:Carey Mulligan

“Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.”

Knows Character Known Innocence Fear Not Fear Nothing

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Persons Character Asks Hero Worship Admire Truest Hero Worship

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

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