Different Characters Quotes

• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

  Tobias Menzies

  Heart, Character, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

  Cher Lloyd

  Character, Play, People

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• I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

  John Frusciante

  Song, Character, Singing

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• What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

  Natasha Calis

  Character, Different, Roles

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• You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

  Kurt Masur

  Character, Mind, Different

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• I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.

  Freddy Rodriguez

  Love, Character, Kids

  "Grindhouse's Action Hero Freddy Rodriguez Interviewed". Interview with Josh Green, www.firstshowing.net. March 30, 2007.

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• Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

  Nicole Kidman

  Character, Play, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 13, 2017

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• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  Lance Reddick

  Drama, School, Character

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  Zachary Levi

  Jobs, Couple, Character

  "Zachary Levi CHUCK Series Finale Set Visit Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Thinking, Different

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Character, Talking

  "Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.

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• I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have. Setting up different characters in different relationships is always helpful as you move forward.

  Rob McElhenney

  Fun, Moving Forward, Character

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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• I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Character, Play, Challenges

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• I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Character, Trying, Different

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• I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

  Monica Keena

  Character, Different, Stuff

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• I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

  Tony Hale

  Character, Opportunity, Different

  "Interview with Emmy Award winner Tony Hale of 'Veep' and 'Arrested Development'". Interview with Christina LeBlanc, www.livethemovies.com. May 10, 2010.

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• I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

  Armie Hammer

  Character, Guy, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

  Stephanie Leonidas

  Character, Play, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  Karen Gillan

  Character, Voice, Robins

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• Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

  Will Friedle

  Character, Play, People

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• My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.

  Alice Eve

  Dad, Character, Thinking

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• Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

  John Nelson Darby

  Character, Doe, Different

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• As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Character, Issues, Challenges

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