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• Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it’s important. It’s also interesting.

  Darren Aronofsky

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  Tags in Character

• I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

  Bruce Boxleitner

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  Tags in Character, Leading

• The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I’m caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

  Iris Johansen

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  Tags in Greatest, Character, Writing

• When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Yourself, Character

• In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

  Dario Argento

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• Originally when I went off to work on ‘The Lord of The Rings’ I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn’t really approach it like that. To get Gollum’s voice I had to play the character.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Character, Saying

• I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

  Peter Shaffer

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  Tags in Music, Character

• In ‘Tintin,’ it’s like a live-action role. You’re living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it’s a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You’re responsible for a small part.

  Andy Serkis

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Character, Emotional

• My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it’s about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

  Daniel Radcliffe

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• I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

  Peter Sarsgaard

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  Tags in Change, Changing, Character

• To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn’t really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

  Damon Hill

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• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Change/Growth, Adventure, Character, Cute

• I don’t see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they’re just characters to me at the end of the day and I’m an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

  Andy Serkis

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  Tags in Good, Character, Live

• After ‘Kong,’ my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character… You are telling your body that you are these things and that you’re feeling these thoughts and that you’re experiencing these experiences.

  Andy Serkis

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  Tags in Character, Feeling, Thoughts

• I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

  Peter Mayhew

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  Tags in Time, Character, Establishment

• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I’d do any character he might create.

  Peter Mayhew

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  Tags in Imagination, Character

• It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn’t know I was doing it.

  Peter Mayhew

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  Tags in Character, Doing

• When you consider that you’re a character that doesn’t speak, but you’ve still got to react to the other actors, you’ve got to make a noise of some kind.

  Peter Mayhew

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  Tags in Character, Acting and Actors

• After a while, the character sort of took over.

  Peter Mayhew

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• Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  Imre Lakatos

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  Tags in Character, Idea, Growth, Empirical