Quotes about character
character buttons goes-on
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this. Gisele Bundchen
character thinking play
Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept. Gil Gerard
character long way
You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character. Georgina Haig
character angel men
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be. Harriet Beecher Stowe
character writing dimensions
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. Harper Lee
character self people
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. Halle Berry
character wells knows
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
character firsts walks
For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.
character giving give-me-a-chance
I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.
character thinking makeup
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you. Gregory Peck
character interesting humanity
The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny. Hope Davis
character world negative
It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
character perfect mind
Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones. Horace Bushnell
character perfect doctrine
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
character building-up important
It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series. Holliday Grainger
character humanity
Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.
character thinking guy
You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera. Holt McCallany
character ideas guy
When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.
character play actors
Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. Ian McShane
character rawness different
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
character crime-novels trying
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern. Ian Rankin
character directors lines
If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, 'do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were really landed on it.' Ian Mckellen
character gay old-fashioned
In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.
character personality acting
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
character writing feelings
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. Iain Banks
character grandmother play
I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors. Hugh Grant
character lines mindset
I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing. Hrithik Roshan
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.