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"The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day."
"I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life."
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him."
"Human beings are complicated and flawed and unique, but we all have a story to tell. Gone are the days where our lead characters can only look like somebody else. Heroes look like all of us. We see ourselves in each others' stories. We see who we are. We see who we want to be. Sometimes we see who we don't want to be. And through that we have a greater understanding of ourselves and acceptance of each other."
"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."
"Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience."
"What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?"
"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."
"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good."
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
"The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution."
"She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her."
"Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying."
"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."
"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way."
"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."
"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."
"Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face."
"Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character."
"The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures."
