#character

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. ↗

— Evan Esar

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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

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It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

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You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

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I always believed in my characters. I lived them. ↗

— Irene Dunne

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