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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing. -- Orlando Bloom
Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action. -- Christopher Golden
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut. -- Walton Goggins
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. -- Nic Pizzolatto
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. -- Sergio Aragones
The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution. -- Irving Stone
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. -- Zig Ziglar
I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome. -- Carrie-Anne Moss
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends. -- Benicio Del Toro
Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. -- John Cusack
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star. -- Jackie Chan
With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt! -- Dwayne Johnson
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. -- Edward Walker
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions. -- Josh Charles
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. -- Iain Banks
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before. -- Geena Davis
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. -- John Stuart Mill
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. -- James Gray
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'. -- Margaret Atwood
The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something. -- Owain Yeoman
I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation. -- Doug Liman
Action is character. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
plot is character in action. -- Maren Elwood
Leadership is character in action. -- James Hunter
Character is revealed through action. -- Aristotle
Character is ethics in action. -- Michael Josephson
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. -- Aristotle
But in action, one defies one's character. -- Daniel Bell
You character and action will reveal your purpose. -- Debasish Mridha
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character -- Billy Wilder
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. -- Oscar Wilde
Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action. -- Christopher Golden
Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL -- Evinda Lepins
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. -- Eric Dane
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before. -- Robbie Amell
Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.' -- Vince Lombardi
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. -- Sigourney Weaver
The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. -- Amit Ray
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. -- Plutarch
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. -- Colin Trevorrow
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action. -- Vince Lombardi
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be. -- Arthur Helps
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. -- Natalie Portman
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. -- Zoe Kazan
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. -- Clive Owen
I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible. -- John Irving
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. -- Tryon Edwards
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. -- David Mamet
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do -- Taylor Lautner
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do. -- Taylor Lautner
The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. -- Brandon Sanderson
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. -- Christopher Lambert
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past. -- Vicky McClure
it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. -- Elizabeth Wordsworth
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. -- Aaron Paul
I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. -- Aaliyah
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. -- Jensen Ackles
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. -- Fernando Pessoa
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. -- Gillian Armstrong
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. -- A. C. Bradley
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. -- Jill Lepore
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. -- Thomas Lickona
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. -- Lee Child
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. -- Edward Herrmann
When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. -- Linda Seger
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. -- Robert Duvall
A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters. -- Walt Disney
I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new. -- Michael Trucco
Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. -- William Alcott
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. -- William Henry Drummond
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. -- Patrick Warburton
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. -- Edward Walker
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along. -- Edward Albee
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay. -- Syd Field
I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character. -- F. Paul Wilson
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that. -- James DeSantis

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