You never play age, you play character.
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
I always look for contradiction in a character.
I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.
Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
I'd like to play nothing but good characters.
I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
I love con-men characters in film.
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How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.
This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.
Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
