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I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

I just loved playing the mean girl. When you're not like a character, it's kind of fun to play.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

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.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.