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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

George McGovern

Character I Am Me Always Out Been

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

Charisma Carpenter

Character Mind Well Done Done Same

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Love Character Play Would Othello

I always look for contradiction in a character.

Character Look Always Contradiction

Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Character Stage Exciting Most Played

Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.

Change Good Character People World

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

Work Character Caring Work Hard Kind

You don't become the character.

Character You Become

I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.

Work Love Character History Sunshine

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out in this role.

Life Character Me American My Life

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature Live Character Circumstances

On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Character Best Man Me Think My Own

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

George R. R. Martin

Friend Character Experience Book You

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Charles Bukowski

Character Soul Walls Man Poetry He

You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.

Character Together Research You Hand

Once again, the 'New York Times' has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly, and nonsensical.

Character New York Reputation Facts

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all. I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment.

Live Character Moment Best Think

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Character Words Me Believe Mouth

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

Elisha Cuthbert

Character Play Know Always Head Who

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

Good Character People Strong Think

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.

William Baldwin

Character Time Quality Interesting

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Richard Dreyfuss

Character Experience Actor Up How

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

Character Book You Always Move

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

Work Love Character Personality Role

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