Best important-things & character Quotes

“For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

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Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.”

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Author:Ana Ortiz

“I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need to come face-to-face with the fact that you are thinking too much of yourself. After all, your feelings are not the most important thing in this world.”

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Author:Lawrence G. Lovasik

“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.”

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Author:Jessica Chastain

“The important thing to remember is to follow the path of light. As the fictional character Yoda, from Star Wars, correctly pointed out, once you start down the dark path to power, it's very difficult to leave that path.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.”

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Author:David Levithan

“The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.”

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Author:Josh Hutcherson

“To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.”

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Author:Stan Lee

“I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.”

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Author:Ksenia Solo

“Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.”

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Author:Loren Bouchard

“The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.”

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Author:Amy Pascal

“Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“That's the most important thing when you're trying to portray a character for the audience to believe, you have to have the ability to journey in uncomfortable areas in your own personal life - to bring them out and make (the characters) true. Michael Landon is incredible at pulling those (emotions) out of you.”

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Author:Drew Waters

“I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways.”

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Author:Paul Dano

“I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor.”

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Author:Julia Garner

“What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that the characters are the most important thing. The actors are the most important thing.”

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Author:Fredrik Bond

“I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.”

“The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.”

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Author:Eric Stonestreet

“The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.”

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Author:Tricia Helfer

“You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“[10 Things I Hate About You] keeps popping up, and it's become a go-to film specifically for adolescent girls who are trying to find their voice, which is a really important thing, and the characters in the film, the two sisters played by Julia Stiles and Larisa Oleynik, they became archetypes for young teenage girls to look up to and emulate.”

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Author:David Krumholtz

“In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.”

“Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.”

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Author:Chad Stahelski

“The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.”

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Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

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Author:Diana Gabaldon

“The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.”

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Author:Candace Bushnell

“With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.”

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Author:Jason Black

“Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.”

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Author:Brenda Barnes

“And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.”

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Author:Anna Friel

“The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.”

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Author:Victoria Pratt

“As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berg

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