Quotes about character
character reality trying
I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work. Eugene Levy
character family-love men
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
character laughing comedian
One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
character comedian actors
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.
character air knowing
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character. Eugene Delacroix
character fire trials
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. Estelle
character luck cant
You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. Estelle Parsons
character men names
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names. Esha Gupta
character looks film
I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
character inheritance care
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment. Ernst Haeckel
character kids thinking
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple. Ernest Hemingway
character simple play
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. Eva Green
character dames wonderful
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame Ethel Merman
character creative moral
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. Etty Hillesum
character writing heart
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. Eudora Welty
character insightful trying
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
character writing doe
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
character writing cities
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
character writing plot
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
character somewhere-else plot
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?...
character two minorities
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities. Esai Morales
character successful science
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot). Erwin Chargaff
character choices temptation
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. Erwin W. Lutzer
character looks development
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
character writing people
If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks. Jez Butterworth
character may location
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. Jhumpa Lahiri
character boys opportunity
I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that. Gucci Mane
character play fans
I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?
character fire campaigns
Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign. Grover Cleveland
character government expectations
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
character findings hard
I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do. Grimes
character majority unconscious
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. Graham Greene
character instinct inherent
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.