Quotes about character
character writing play
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about. Eve Ensler
character needed just-one
Too many lives are needed to make just one. Eugenio Montale
character
courage is the gift of character Euripides
character men good-man
When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
character presidential stamps
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."
character race ambitious
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. Francis Parkman
character crazy-love-book main-characters
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us? Francis Chan
character men animal
Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. Francis Arinze
character mean ends
A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. Francis Atterbury
character mean expression
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary... Francine Prose
character want boundaries
I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever. Jennifer Ellison
character people together
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera. Jeff Schaffer
character kids cartoon
All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't Jeff Smith
character thinking issues
One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way. Jeff Vandermeer
character editors trying
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
character thinking names
Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names. Jeff Goldblum
character pieces might
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing. Jean Stapleton
character doors keys
Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.
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.
character stupidity secret
Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.
character use alive
One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
character men insane
A man kept his character even when he was insane.
character arrogance commonplace
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
character differences scotch
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
character challenges stories
If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me. Giovanni Ribisi