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“I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”

“With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a great character, he just hasn't been positioned in a role of importance in a long, long time. We tried to do that in this series; give him this platform because he deserves it, and give a very different perception of Aquaman while at the same time staying true to who the character is. Showing his power level, his fortitude, his sense of honor and commitment and responsibility, and hopefully showing everything that makes a hero a hero.”

“The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.”

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Author:Bun B

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

“Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“We've lost a lot of coaches around here, but the philosophy and the approach, the standards we have set and the expectations we have maintained have always been upheld from one year to the next.I attribute that to the great character of the players and the willingness of the coaches to not get influenced and get off-message and to get out of the way.”

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Author:Pete Carroll

“Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!”

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Author:Kofi Siriboe

“[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.”

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Author:Ron Clements

“The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's so clear and concise, and it's entertaining in the sense that everyone can relate to it. But you have no doubt what our Lord was trying to communicate in the heart of that story. So the truth was not sacrificed on the altar of entertainment in that case. And it can be.”

“The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm 28 years old in that - and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.”

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Author:Brent Spiner

“I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.”

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Author:Andre Holland

“[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.”

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Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.”

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Author:Chad Stahelski

“If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.”

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Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.”

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Author:Matt Kindt

“I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.”

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Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“With the quality of films it seems animation can do almost anything these days. It’s amazing what goes on. But for us it’s always about trying to tell a good story, with great characters. And that will probably always be the philosophy as far as Disney and Pixar is concerned.”

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Author:Klay Hall

“My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.”

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Author:Jerry Weintraub

“I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Source: The American Crisis

“I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

Source: To father, with love: wisdom from Guideposts

“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.”

“The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.”

Source: Portraits, political & personal

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

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Book:They Call Me Coach

Source: They Call Me Coach

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”

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Author:Phillips Brooks

“These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”

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Author:Abigail Adams

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“Character is what you are in the dark.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

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