Quotes about character
character class two
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm
character writing giving
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself. Matthew Nable
character dark thinking
So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending. Matthew Quick
character guy rooms
I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now. Matthew Perry
character people broken
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
character years film
When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback. Matthew Davis
character knowing anxiety
Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.
character icons way
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way. Matthew Barney
character ego way
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it
character careers going-away
After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career. Matthew Ashford
character evil feelings
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves. Mark Russell
character writing thinking
I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.
character destiny important
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns. Mark Shields
character mean thinking
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means. Marina Warner
character law needs
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject. Marilynne Robinson
character thinking years
I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so that makes me a little bit prone to use that kind of character, perhaps, just at the moment. Then there is also the fact that, having been a church member for many years, I am very aware of how much pastors enrich people's experience, people for whom they are significant. I know that it's a kind of custom of American literature and culture to slang them. I don't think there is any reason why that needs to be persisted in.
character reality thinking
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.
character rewards attention
I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
character writing thinking
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.
character independent men
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him. Maria Montessori
character taught explanation
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
character interesting people
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know. Mary Stuart Masterson
character littles able
I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance". Mary Steenburgen
character play actresses
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. Mary Tyler Moore
character years differences
I've been doing It's Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like "this is edgy," which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that's the difference. Mary Elizabeth Ellis
character thinking actors
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. Patricia Clarkson
character trying firsts
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
character bored long
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character. Patricia Cornwell
character abnormal littles
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself. Patricia Highsmith
character law order
The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public. Pablo Schreiber
character views directors
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view. Paddy Considine
character goal path
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. Pablo Neruda
character may disgrace
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. Plautus