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I tend to enjoy roles that I very closely identify with: fringe people and complicated characters, who might even be bad guys, or bad characters that have one redeeming quality.

~Dylan Sprouse

Topics: Bad Bad Guys Characters Closely Complicated Enjoy Even Fringe Guys Identify Might People Quality Redeeming Roles Tend Very Who

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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

~E. L. Konigsburg

Topics: Actually Along Characters Decide End Going How Important Incidents Know Some Story Things Way Where Write I Write

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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Acknowledge Better Changed Characters Even Hold Our Own Slow Vanity

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A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.

~Ed Catmull

Topics: Backgrounds Camera Characters Colors Contains Design Each Every Form Ideas Lighting Line Literally Locations Movie Pacing Performance Sentence Sets Tens Tens Of Thousands Thousands

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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.

~Ed Harris

Topics: Able Any Architect Attempted Been Career Characters Different Different Kind Done Fashion Get Good Good Job Job Kind My Own One Thing Order Over Own Play Pretty Pretty Good Thing Think Typecast Years I Think

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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

~Ed Helms

Topics: Always Characters Comedic Done Feel Heroes Huge Like Lot Love See Something Vulnerability I Love I Feel I Feel Like

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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

~Ed Stoppard

Topics: Chaos Character Characters Control Difficulties Exploring Family Gravitate Love Population Pretty Rich Tend Theory Toward Who

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In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

~Ed Stoppard

Topics: Act Actor Actress Ages Any Characters Different Eligible End He His Inevitably Life Likely Lot Many More Often Play Something Than Time Tom Up Will Written

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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

~Edan Lepucki

Topics: Apocalypse Cal California Characters Create Depleted Frida Funny Give Intuitively Moved Much Out Set Simply Thought Through Two Type World

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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

~Edan Lepucki

Topics: About Always Characters Complicated Dozen Even Feel Feelings Fiction Looking Once Paragraph Single Space Whom I Can

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