Quotes about character
character people needs
Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person. Michael Angarano
character writing talking
If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking. Michael Arndt
character writing cutting
The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.
character writing differences
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
character steps accents
I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character. Mia Wasikowska
character essence film
I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
character knows
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
character empathy
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
character pieces lasts
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
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I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.
character play empathy
You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
character men conversation
The character of a man is known from his conversations. Menander
character eye men
Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? Mencius
character thinking stories
I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do. Michiel Huisman
character space surfing
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. Michelangelo Antonioni
character space want
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
character cutting fighting
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
character thinking evil
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. Michel Houellebecq
character soul alphabet
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves. Socrates
character
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
character voice gestures
I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me. Mercedes Ruehl
character hard-work dwelling
In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.
character ideas progress
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Mercy Otis Warren
character color imagination
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. Mercedes McCambridge
character thinking impact
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. Mercedes Lackey
character decision development
We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. Michelle Rodriguez
character years ideas
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show. Michael Shanks
character play impossible
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
character play loner
A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies. Michael Shannon
character magic stories
Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
character play majority
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
character love-is play
I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy. Michael Sheen
character reputation extremes
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.