Quotes about character
character being-in-love knowing
I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him. Janel Moloney
character emotional looks
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this. Janet Fitch
character unity goes-on
What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) A scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. Starts angry, ends embarrassed. Starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) Something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. Make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. Make something happen.
character roots able
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. Janet Evanovich
character voice firsts
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'But I often don't agree with what they say,' I protested. The lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction I make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. Neither, I have found, are many of my readers. Jane Rule
character costumes body
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else. Jane Levy
character years knowing
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. Jane Pauley
character gay thinking
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles. Jane Lynch
character men righteous-man
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides
character gold literature
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
character play normal
I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person. Ethan Embry
character writing plot
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. Etgar Keret
character giving world
Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
character thinking people
One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character. Ethan Hawke
character eye fate
It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his creatures, that their personalities clearly and organically unfold before the eyes of the audience so that the latter feel that the actions of these people are contingent upon their characters, that there exists some kind of a logical fate, and that nothing is left to mere accident or coincidence. Ernst Lubitsch
character population guarantees
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down. Ernst Mayr
character thinking calling
I think calling someone a character is a compliment. Errol Morris
character science two
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation. Ernest Rutherford
character matter stamp-collecting
Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.
character men rights
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman! Ernestine Rose
character interesting degrees
A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting. Erin Cummings
character artist breathing-space
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named. Erin Morgenstern
character giving stories
Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to. Jason Ellis
character writing thinking
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. Cassandra Clare
character disease sides
There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.
character men wish
When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
character creating feelings
I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go. Caroline Leavitt
character people use
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
characters goes hope keeps yearning
I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing. Kimberly Willis Holt
characters complete good life opposite troubled
I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life. Kodi Smit-McPhee
characters places stories time
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics. Kim Edwards
characters nicer people time
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't. John Burnside
character writing secret
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women? Evan Goldberg