Quotes about character
character successful battle
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution. Erich Fromm
character simple order
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
character people tumult
tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult. Erica Jong
character writing thinking
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
character thinking dragons
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. Emily Watson
character play logic
You have to play the logic of a character.
character simple interesting
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
character play important
It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play. Emily VanCamp
character moon two
I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. Emma Forrest
character successful knives
Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important. Elsa Maxwell
character play judging
As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what." Javier Bardem
characters deeper grown return
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. Anthony Marra
character middle stale
But yeah, I started to get stale around the middle of the second-to-last year. I didn't really know what to do with the character anymore. John Goodman
character instead sue trying
But if it was me, I'd be doing everything I could to get back and play and show everyone the character I have ... instead of trying to sue everyone. Markus Naslund
characters emotional happens reality reasons relationships
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens. Graeme Murphy
characters followed
because there are a lot of characters that aren't followed through. Nick Nolte
character play trying
I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them. Harrison Ford
character opportunity luck
I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
character age growing
There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.
character years interesting
I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
character opportunity fiction
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].
character cutting cowboy
American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
character opportunity thinking
There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.
character goal actors
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
character school affliction
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. Hannah More
character opposites numbers
it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
character cycling sometimes
In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things. Guy Verhofstadt
character thinking voice
I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character. Guy Ritchie
character location etc
Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc... Guy Pearce
character tired actors
I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.
character past play
I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play, not through the articulation of them later.
character interesting littles
A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I don't find particularly interesting, whereas I like the fact that there was at least some humor in this because really it's a piece of entertainment.
character trying together
I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.