Quotes about character
character guy entrepreneurial
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually. Greg Grunberg
character ideas trying
When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things. Glenn Howerton
character pet knows
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.
character voice people
It’s wonderful, it’s expressive. It’s a way of using a part of my instrument that I’m comfortable and familiar with. The voice is such a vital part of crafting a character. I’m so pleased that I have the kind of voice that prints well and that people want to hear. I’ve had friends actually say, ‘You know, I was in the kitchen, and the television was on and I heard you.’ I love hearing that there’s something familiar about my sound, and that to some people it’s soothing. Gina Torres
character challenges arcs
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character. Ginnifer Goodwin
character differences novel
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full. Georges Simenon
character artist drawing
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. Georges Seurat
character sky expression
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. Georges Rouault
character journey actors
My journey has been that of a character actor. Harry Carey, Jr.
character pages scripts
As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page. Harry Connick, Jr.
characteristics show-me shows
In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole. Gregory Bateson
characters understand
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. Jesmyn Ward
characters classic dirty fairly letting mad reluctant reminds version
He's that reluctant hero, and he's a fairly classic version of it. He reminds me of characters I always liked, Mad Max, Dirty Harry, Han Solo, where there's more going on than what they're letting on. Hugh Jackman
character great learn
He's such an inspiration to all of us. Very positive, great character to be around and learn from him. Retief Goosen
character good groucho loves study
He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him. Arthur Marx
character finish laugh night page people score script send sent wonder
He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and said I'd do it. I didn't even finish it. You look for a part that you can score in. If I like this character and I can play it, the people are going to laugh or be interested, that's what you look for. They send me things that I wonder why they would send to anybody. Peter Falk
character guest prefer television tend time work
I don't prefer the guest star, one-shots. The arcs are more interesting because they give you more time to work through the character and they tend to give you more close-ups, which is what television is all about. Adam Baldwin
character handle hopefully return
I don't know if we have a character yet. But it's that we return sophomores, and hopefully they will be able to handle the different courses.
characters evolving life lived older scripts
I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey. Matt Barr
character loved meanness message palmer
I didn't think Palmer should have been killed at all. I didn't like the message that it sent. There is too much meanness in the world - why kill off a character that is so loved by everybody? Dennis Haysbert
characters enjoyable jump paradoxes time
I didn't find any temporal paradoxes that I couldn't handle, ... It's a very enjoyable thing to do, to jump time and play around with characters you've already established.
character men trying
I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you. Ingmar Bergman
character frustration people
People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations. Jack Lemmon
character individuality way
I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel. Jack Kirby
character elements
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
character people having-hope
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
character what-if spleen
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner. Jack Dee
character acting roles
Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
character interesting flaws
To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws. J. J. Abrams
character tired together-again
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath. J. D. Salinger
character giving ministry
The Holy Spirit's main ministry is not to give thrills but to create in us Christlike character. J. I. Packer
character heart reality
The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.
character today character-of-god
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.