#character

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream. ↗

— Gregory Hines

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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

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I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

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The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#amongst #blow #character #get #good

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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