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Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Cecilia Bartoli

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

Charles Barkley

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

Christine Baranski

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

Antonio Banderas