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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.