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I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
Steve Coogan
Myself
Character
Challenge
Difficult
Easier
Kind
Find
More
Likeable
Idiotic
Audience
Always
Being
Subtle
Far
Play
Actually
Portray
I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive.
Steve Erickson
Character
First
Fact
Driven
Had
Studio
Feel
Know
Executive
Fairly
First-Person
Been
Person
Movie
Producer
Certain
Who
If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.
Steve Schirripa
Time
Character
You
Matter
Know
Go
Mean
Your
Who
I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer.
Steve Vai
Beautiful
Music
Great
Character
Guitar
Picture
Entertainer
Would
Had
He
Beautiful Music
Performing
Around
Limitations
Audience
Effortlessly
Just
Moved
Being
Created
Skills
Who
Capturing
Play
I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.
Steve Zahn
Character
Superhero
More
Attracted
Vulnerable
Always
Am
Than
Character is not created on the spot.
Steven Ford
Character
Spot
Created
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
Steven Hatfill
Character
Relationship
Events
Past
Killer
Object
Having
Bear
Absolutely
Anthrax
Reference
Question
Which
Who
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
Steven Heighton
Character
Age
Too
Frame
Easy
Point
Point Of View
Write
Male
Reference
Cultural
Same
Gets
View
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.
Steven Michael Quezada
Character
Bad
Only
He
Break
Cop
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
Steven Spielberg
Character
Director
Back
Kind
Purple
Color
Could
Like
Piece
Tied
His
Hand
Behind
Brilliantly
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
Steven Spielberg
War
Character
You
Better
Way
Kind
Telling
About
Put
Better Way
Clearly
Test
Than
Person
Going
Middle
Story
Them
Show
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
Steven Strait
Myself
Character
Me
Try
New Things
Stuck
Push
New
Genre
Another
Get
Fun
Things
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
Steven Strogatz
Love
Character
You
Problem
Part
Obstacles
Just
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.
Steven Stucky
Music
Character
Patience
Pretentious
National
Virtue
Complex
Conspicuously
Distrust
Impaired
Feature
Habit
Remains
Suppose
Also
Learned
Fake
National Character
Intellectual
Austere
American
May
Listeners
Frontier
Which
Exposing
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Stieg Larsson
Character
People
Crime
Consequences
Pleases
Those
Abhor
Having
Main
Main Character
He
He Or She
She
Without
However
Normal
Normal People
Behave
Which
Social
Actions
Novels
Things
You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
Stockard Channing
Character
You
Commit
Want
Inhabit
Fully
Play
If you are the sort of character who likes to feel you are in a battle, then make sure you do that.
Stuart Broad
Character
You
Battle
Feel
Likes
Make
Sort
Sure
Then
Who
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
Sue Grafton
Life
Character
Woman
Building
Own
Live
Taken
She
Course
Years
Years Ago
Same
Apartment
Used
Rosie
Who
Many
Lived
Based
Her
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
Sue Miller
Character
People
Sometimes
Men
Thinking
Books
Has-Been
Main
Main Character
Always
Been
Different
Each
Each One
I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.
Sue Monk Kidd
Love
Character
Writing
First
Intimacy
Inside
Dropped
First-Person
Affinity
Person
Being
Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Suge Knight
Character
You
People
Judge
Better
Prison
Faster
Pick
Make
Up
Much
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.
Suresh Raina
Character
Me
You
Cricket
Aim
About
Mental
Mental Toughness
Toughness
Feel
Come
Know
Most
Another
Matches
Test
Importantly
Tests
Different
Your
Satisfaction
Play
Level
Player
When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.
Suriya
Character
Entertainment
Theatre
People
Cinema
Remember
Give
Emotion
Leave
Line
Want
Meaningful
Should
Sequence
When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Character
Better
Characters
More
Layers
Write
Understand
Revise
Happens
Create
I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
Susan Ford
Character
You
Change
Honesty
Strong
Father
Think
Strong Character
Totally
Could
He
Very
Believes
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Susan Isaacs
Character
Me
Wait
First
Way
Right Way
Plot
Begin
Novel
Right
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