Quotes about character
character men female
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men. Howard Zinn
character names two
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture. Howard Hawks
character mean thinking
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.
character solitude actors
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor. Howard Gordon
character tv-shows profound
When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.
character thinking voice
What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.
character mean stories
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character. Howard Nemerov
character anxiety achievement
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. Howard Barker
character sympathetic
I don't like sympathetic characters.
character white pages
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. Hosea Ballou
character noble disgusting
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
character oil promise
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!
character consistency ends
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. Horace
character different done
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Hank Azaria
character three done
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
character men self
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition. Hannah Arendt
character may something-new
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
character greatness two
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away. Guy Finley
character theater persons
Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person. Grace Gummer
character men people
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. Gouverneur Morris
character thinking race
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made. Gore Vidal
character want tvs
When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do. Gina Holden
character acting research
In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film. Gina Carano
character thinking important
I think that it is important to establish a world of place for the characters in improv and there is nothing to be gained from disagreeing about that. So you have to establish the principle that if some person establishes one thing we're all going to go along with it and that we are all building from it. Gillian Jacobs
character roles looks
If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy. Giancarlo Esposito
character thinking people
I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.
character done occupation
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
character play challenges
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
character acting reactions
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own character.
character phones breathing
When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.
character actors chameleon
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
character precisely strip
He's the most soul-destroying character in the strip precisely because he doesn't know he's being evil, Scott Adams
character emotional eyes face mention people portraying relationship relationships
he said, ''but in her face and eyes you can see what the character she is portraying is wearing, where she is, the setting, the other people who are present, and what her relationship to them is -- not to mention her emotional state. Maria Callas