Quotes about character
character men actors
I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. Burgess Meredith
character thinking actors
I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; youre actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that. Burn Gorman
character decision pressure
To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure. Bryan Cranston
character tv-shows people
It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum you watch it because it's like, 'I'm comfortable, this is the same guy.'
character unique challenges
When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.
character responsibility play
When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.
character divorce thinking
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. James Hillman
character animal night
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.
character world stories
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
character years soul
Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.
character writing giving
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. James Earl Jones
character makeup self
You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives. James E. Faust
character years world
The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit more cerebral and escape into characters and the world of characters. But now I guess I escape into stories about 'Wilfred. Jason Gann
character normal casts
I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast. Jared Harris
character reason bits
I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly. Jarvis Cocker
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 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.