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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee
Character
You
Own
Role
Any
Whenever
Acting
Your
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
Jack Dee
Character
Me
Nothing
Corner
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Out
Around
Still
Version
Did
Quite
Where
Turn
Really
Rick
Right
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
Character
Worse
Out
Dinosaur
Like
Without
Context
Than
Story
Amnesia
Suffers
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson
Character
People
Trouble
Imagination
Slight
Alike
Ways
Never
Had
Most
Identifying
Any
Playing
Stretch
With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.
Jack Reynor
Myself
Character
Amazing
Range
Invest
Emotion
Excited
Make
Role
Richard
Really
Film
Actor
Play
Wide
Wide Range
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver
Character
You
Every
About
Stuff
Learn
Condition
Quite
Human
Human Condition
Play
Enlightening
It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.
Jacki Weaver
Character
You
School
Evil
Judgment
Drama
Drama School
Possible
Moral
Inside
Objective
Someone
Empathize
Make
Learn
Got
Get
Much
Basic
Playing
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
Jackie Earle Haley
Good
Character
Crazy
You
Think
Wild
Character Actor
Bad
Embody
Bad Guy
Guy
Through
Exciting
Drunken
Accents
Being
Different
Whether
Different Things
Actor
Things
Good Guy
I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.
Jackie Shroff
Positive
Myself
Character
Me
People
Remember
Negative
Directors
Mission
Know
Although
Very
Offering
Roles
Did
After
Which
Kashmir
Why
Played
I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
Jackson Browne
Character
Personality
Out
Some
About
Songs
Come
Talk
Yeah
Just
Anything
Certain
Aspects
Certain Things
Choose
Avoid
Things
We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
Life
Character
Better
Lose
Our
Develop
Looks
Interest
Your
Eventually
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
Jacqueline Bisset
Work
Myself
Character
Me
Progression
Everyone
Feel
Likes
Makes
Am
Harder
Watching
In 'Brothers,' I am going into a zone that is something that I have not done. It's a very simple and desi character. It's also a character that I think a lot of people would not have expected me to do.
Jacqueline Fernandez
Character
Me
People
Simple
Think
Would
Brothers
Something
Also
Am
Lot
Very
Expected
Done
Going
Zone
I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.
Jaime Camil
Love
Myself
Character
Find
Come
Read
Want
Transform
Script
Interesting
Scripts
Working
Working Actor
Actor
I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.
Jake Busey
Love
Character
Me
You
Human Being
Words
Own
Entirely
Merely
Existence
Person
Human
Just
Being
Page
Who
Gratifying
Lives
What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
Jake Epstein
Character
You
Everybody
Spider-Man
Nerd
Superhero
About
Charming
He
Put
Huge
Up
Being
Ends
Anyone
Cool
Believes
Suit
I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of myself, my perspective on the world and helping my life.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Life
Service
Myself
Character
World
Perspective
My Life
Think
Approach
Put
Acting
Helping
Necessarily
I've got a theory with each character I play. Regardless of the actions that they do, I, as Jake, have to like these people. And I have to say, 'I wouldn't mind hanging out with this guy for an hour and a half.'
Jake Johnson
Character
People
Mind
Half
Say
Out
Guy
Hour
Like
Hour And A Half
Got
Hanging
Regardless
Theory
Actions
Each
Play
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
Character
You
Consists
Tries
Fourth
Third
Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.
James Anderson
Character
Cricket
Out
Ability
True
True Character
Also
Test
Tests
Your
Bring
It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
James B. Stewart
Character
Important
Judgment
Most
Qualities
Executive
Said
Chief
Chief Executive
Often
The Most Important
No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.
James Bobin
Character
Capitalism
Way
Allegory
Tex
Any
Communist
Muppet
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell
Character
Man
Degree
Practice
Whatever
Besides
Some
Discovered
May
Anything
Forms
Choose
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
James Buchan
Depression
Character
Business
Greed
Recession
Moral
Moral Character
Purge
Economic
Excess
Had
Supposed
Until
Up
Expansion
Body
I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'
James Caan
Character
Big
Beginning
Nothing
Other
Enough
About
Studio
Heads
Couple
Said
End
Middle
Stories
Against
Movies
Novel
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
James Cromwell
Character
Change
Words
Language
Own
Mouth
Else
Everything
Out
Inside
Inside-Out
My Own
Never
Know
Make
Because
Always
Cue
Lines
Fit
Any
Often
Anybody
Actor
Position
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