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My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl. -- James Cromwell
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying. -- Jim Broadbent
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. -- Martin Filler
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition. -- Kurt Busiek
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. -- Alan Dershowitz
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
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about. -- Austin Grossman
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. -- Bernard Law Montgomery

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