4023 Character Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la Bruyere

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Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her. Jeanne Tripplehorn

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I remember watching TV as a kid, and whenever there was some sort of jeopardy involving the hero, I could reassure myself that they were what I'd call a 'can't-die' character, so everything would be OK. Jed Mercurio

The part of my life where my character was defined was at work because of the decisions I make and the things I do, and I guess that's what I feel qualifies me and attracts me to write the characters I do. Jed Mercurio

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I am very observant of people's character. Jeff Buckley

Character People Observant Am Very

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. Jeff Dunham

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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan. Jeff Fortenberry

Character Respect Marks Those Gentlemanly

John Cena is John Cena - it's really not a character he is playing. Jeff Jarrett

Character John He Really Playing

I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character 'represents.' Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn't until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc. Jeff Lemire

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You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know? Jeff Lemire

Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before. Jeff Lemire

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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic. Jeff Nichols

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue. Jeff Nichols

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One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness. Jeffrey Bell

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I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Character Awesome Deadwood

In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you. Jeffrey Eugenides

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