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“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

I Can Different Character Would Be Jobs Lasts Actors Easy Challenges Veins Challenging Myself

Author:Richard Madden

“If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.”

Ifs Two Soul Character Stories Would Be Next Possibility Host Seekers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

Thinking Men Character Would Be Turns Actors Character Actors Dashing

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.”

People Needs Should Writing Believe Looks Play Character Would Be Able I Believe Social Challenges Lines Views Class Crosses Males Gender Point Of View Good Writers Social Class Chameleon

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.”

Want Play Character Reality Would Be Actors Like Me

Author:Emily Osment

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Different Ends Play Character Would Be Able Beautiful Known Careers Approach Crafts The End Of The Day Different Kinds Beautiful Life

Author:Adepero Oduye

“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

“Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!”

Ifs Men Character Would Be Rights Equal Cease Folly Detrimental

Author:Ernestine Rose

“Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.”

Wells Long Done Play Character Shows Would Be Interesting Week Tvs Long Time Episodes Tv Shows Very Interesting Unclear

Author:Nick Stahl

“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

Writing Years Firsts Character Stories Would Be Imagination Fiction Novel Subjects Skills Research Useless Articles Reporters My Imagination Profile

Author:Amy Waldman

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.”

Giving Should Character Would Be Able Father Deals Advice Integrity I Have Learned Senior Cornerstones Best Advice High Road Integrity And Character Taking The High Road

Author:Larry Wilcox

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

Thinking Men World Writing Kind Character Would Be Actors Enjoy Interesting Deals Males Tendencies Really Interesting Interesting Characters Storyline

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“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

“Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.”

Trying Character Would Be Copies Temperament

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.”

Character Would Be Hero Scripture Miraculous Inventor

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”

Men Character Would Be Existence Materials Circumstances Creatures Mark One Man Architect Bricks Palaces Warehouse Mortar Villa Bricks And Mortar

Book:The Works of Goethe

Source: The Works of Goethe

“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”

People Knows Way May Character Might Would Be Compassion Security Compass

Author:William Stafford

“I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.”

Character Would Be Evil Movement Objects Election Practicals Suspicion Intervention Proceeding Promoters Attendance

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.”

Men Made Character Government Would Be Honest Danger Depends Illusion Philosopher Contrary Welfare Governors Pins Occasional Franklin

Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.”

“I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.”

Thinking World Writing Character Would Be Actors Roles Moon Casts Rhythm Tone Twilight Vacuums New Moon

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

Book Character Would Be Language

Book:Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Believe Ideas Whole Character Would Be Film Speak I Believe Process Creating Agree Casts Hopefully Best Things Things To Do Rely Great Times Sequels Ensemble

Author:Brendan Fraser

“The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.”

Ifs Firsts Made Play Character Would Be Wanted Talking Laughing Written Phones Sydney Fiance

Author:Victor Garber

“Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.”

Thinking Writing Humans Mean Character Problem Would Be Human Beings Perfect Personality Love Life Superpower Family Problems Money Problem

Author:Stan Lee

“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”

Ifs Character Would Be Found Mankind Motive Propensity Censure Investigating

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

Ifs Giving Doe Real Character Would Be Quality Opinion Evidence Mark Errors Queens Fancy Falsehood Deceiving Infallible Deceitful

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly.”

Mean Character Would Be Spirit Evil Change Wise Feet Changed Opposites This Life Good Life His Love After Death Angelic

Book:A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Source: A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg