Characters Quotes (page 119)

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• time
• feeling
• character

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text. Donald Pleasence

• top
• evening
• character

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself. Donald Pleasence

• character
• evening
• lining

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines. Donald Pleasence

• character
• likeness
• likes

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. Terrence Howard

• single
• character
• play

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind. Terrence Howard

• men
• humanity
• character

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato

• character
• play
• latest

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy. Thayer David

• manly
• men
• character

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato

• thoughts
• character
• firsts

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me. Larry David

• journey
• people
• character

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people. James McAvoy

• charming
• play
• character

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. James McAvoy

• search
• kindness
• him

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him. James McAvoy

• chance
• literature
• love

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs. James McAvoy

• character
• solitude
• exceptions

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. Stendhal

• character
• learning
• greatness

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. Jeremy Piven