Quotes about character
character eyebrows attention
There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way. Chris Ware
character people stories
In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories. Chris Pratt
character thinking squares
I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different. Chris Pine
character play one-day
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though. Chris Lilley
character thinking way
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
character creating able
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well Chris Kattan
character swiftness reputation
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Faith Baldwin
character writing plot
Character is plot, plot is character. F. Scott Fitzgerald
character differences choices
The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. George W. Bush
character government community
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
character commitment compassion
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
character stories ifs
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. George V. Higgins
character thinking reader
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
character together stories
I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes George Tillman, Jr.
character names guy
I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".
character class three
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. George Orwell
character cutting littles
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it. George R. R. Martin
character writing exercise
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.
character black-and-white grey
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
character emotional attachment
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
character should-have choices
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
character writing play
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
character grieving care
You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
character soul woods
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau
character wish television
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters. Gene Roddenberry
character pride melting
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion. Gene Tierney
character fate stories
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. Garth Ennis
character upset balance
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
character writing looks
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
character people literature
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
character kids childhood
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
character design guy
Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.
character play shining
When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind. Gal Gadot