There's a theory in gameplay, particularly in first person shooters, that sometimes you don't want to have that much of a character because then it destroys the experience of the player being that character.
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KEVIN BACON Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just... DARYL HANNAH I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said ... DENIS VILLENEUVE There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight fo... BRUCE LIPTON Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The char... STEVE ALFORD I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me. RACHEL BILSON What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the char... DALLAS WILLARD It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll nev... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you... MARC GUGGENHEIM There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside... DAVID WENHAM I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some ele... KAREN ALLEN With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeli... MARKETA IRGLOVA You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a fa... DOUGLAS WILSON I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essenti... VIN DIESEL If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... ALAN ARKIN It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having ... 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JANET JACKSON I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much... SHERRI SHEPHERD It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a work... WINONA RYDER Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what wou... AMANDA SCHULL I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you... BROOKE LANGTON Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other la... IRRFAN KHAN It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's... LAURA FRASER A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference.... NDAMUKONG SUH Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno... COLIN FARRELL One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' t... TOBIN BELL If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People... MARGARET ATWOOD I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I... JOHN FRUSCIANTE When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not w... NATHAN FILLION There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you ... BERNHARD SCHLINK Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believin... HALEY JOEL OSMENT For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by y... ROBERT GRIFFIN III You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powe... PAUL DANO There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy fl... FINN JONES Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, ... DANIEL CRAIG I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr... LOUIS L'AMOUR We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and y... WINONA RYDER I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin... CLAIRE FOY For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's ... BILLY ZANE Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can so... KYRA SEDGWICK If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo... WILL ARNETT Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ... EMILY RIOS You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't hav... KEITH STANFIELD I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ... ROWAN ATKINSON I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It... CATHERINE MARY STEWART I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go ... WALTER ANNENBERG A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that cha... EMMETT KELLY I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it... B. D. WONG One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I wor... BROCK LESNAR And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land... FAY GODWIN There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not wh... COLIN TREVORROW When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's... TED CRUZ If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f... W. C. FIELDS It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of l... MARY J. BLIGE Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be... AARON RODGERS TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's m... WILLIE GARSON What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's no... MARTIN SHORT There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 per... SPIKE LEE There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; alway... MCKAYLA MARONEY Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not nece... KATEY SAGAL Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes t... SEBASTIAN STAN There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably ... DAVID KAY Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and ... DAN BROWN The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules... GUS VAN SANT I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villai... GILLIAN FLYNN If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha... LAURA ROBSON I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire,... CRAIG ROBERTS There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really inte... STEVEN WRIGHT The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that ... MILOS FORMAN It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way... IDRIS ELBA You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't... SCOTT BAKULA There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ... CHRIS CORNELL I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes... DAVID HENRY HWANG The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get th... SAKU KOIVU When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how ... DAVID OGDEN STIERS There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do li... KRISTEN STEWART When you let those defensive backs know that you're a physical player, they don't really wan... EZEKIEL ELLIOTT
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PERELMAN In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an... S. I. HAYAKAWA I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. S. I. HAYAKAWA In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or... S. I. HAYAKAWA You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're us... S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an... S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat... S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un... S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon... S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina... S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma.... S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends. S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer... S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t... S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi... S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a... S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN