Quotes about character
character careers
I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters. Charlize Theron
character easy
I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved.
character discipline needs
You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.
character play
You can live vicariously through the characters you play.
character nerves wit
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. Charles Lamb
character men people
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
character imagination mind
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.
character deeds-done charity
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
character survival each-day
There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I’d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I’d paid. Charlaine Harris
character heroic
Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
character portraiture gestures
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. Charles Baudelaire
character mind done
I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested. Charisma Carpenter
character writing expression
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best. Chang-Rae Lee
character people personality
Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
character challenges hiv
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging. Chad Lowe
character dark disturbing
I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters. Chad Lindberg
character should-have stories
I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character. Charlie Hunnam
character creating mind
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written. Charlie Kaufman
character thinking actors
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
character writing goal
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
character independent ballet
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. Charlie Munger
character damage excuse
Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.
character opportunity cash
It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
character kids littles
I'd been a Superman fan since the time I was a little kid. We had great respect for the Donner movie, and Superman II with Terence Stamp as Zod but I felt it was time to bring the character into the 21st century. Charles Roven
character compromise artistic
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. Charles Rosen
character mind littles
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness . Charles Sanders Peirce
character science race
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the human race almost trembling in the balance; for had not the geometry of conic sections already been worked out in large measure, and had their opinion that only sciences apparently useful ought to be pursued, the nineteenth century would have had none of those characters which distinguish it from the ancien régime.
character law quality
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
character negative said
When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.
character ought universe
The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
character writing fate
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
character writing thinking
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It's the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip. Charles M. Schulz
character always-trying yesterday
I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.