Quotes about character
character doors actors
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed. Carroll O'Connor
character thinking becoming
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself. Carrot Top
character individual nexus
Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect. Carroll Quigley
character voice tennis
Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you. Carol Channing
character gay assumption
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
character writing thinking
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters. Carol Burnett
character mean civilization
I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization. Carl Schurz
character giving balance
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control. Alan Lightman
character writing ideas
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
character writing thinking
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
character thinking play
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens. Alan Cumming
character balance trying
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Alan Dershowitz
character democracy communism
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou
character people sometimes
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'" Al Yankovic
character parent trying
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents. Alain de Botton
characters charts entirely firmly ground ink proof remains rooted scope series solid spent tale terms
Much ink has been spent on the tale of getting the show to the screen, ... The proof is in the product, however, and we say without reservation it is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition, yet remains rooted firmly in the fundamentals of solid characters and well-told stories.
characters directly exactly five hours nor screen structure totally translate writers
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story. Gayle Forman
character clearly men
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
characters entertain job letting
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves. Karin Slaughter
character classical showy vulgar
My look is very, very glamorous, seductive, yet classical and unusual. It's never vulgar or showy in character.
characters exactly
My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them. Scott Thompson
character friend good invited misfortune
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune
character characters consistent growth narrative needed reason remain week wrote
One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week. Maria Semple
characters pleasure time trilogy
One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time. Chuck Hogan
character honorable stumble
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
character children commitment daughter honor learned reflection responsibility ultimately word work
One of the things I tell my own daughter and also the children I work with is something I learned long ago from my grandmother. Your word is your honor. If you make a commitment it is your responsibility to live up to your word. If you don't then this is a reflection on your character and ultimately on your honor as a person of integrity.
characters fascinates
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
character easily judge people treat
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
character experience god inside since taught trust within
No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself is more authoritative than what comes to you externally, even if it comes from God. Since the Fall, it has been part of our character to look within ourselves. Michael Horton
character choose destiny gives impulse jealousy love nature ours power shall
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
character describe guys team word
One word to describe the guys on this team would be character,
character good gregarious music musical reader shorthand small taste whether
Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character. If you want to tell the reader a lot about a character in a small space, just tell them what their musical taste is. You'll get their age, their background, whether they're gregarious or a loner. Ian Rankin
characters eccentric side
More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier. Melissa McCarthy