Quotes about character
character people attention
For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved. Milo Ventimiglia
character play trying
You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.
character play actors
As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.
character squares giving
The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give. Milton Friedman
character quality deterioration
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
character adversity thinking
I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true. Mike Sherman
character play laughing
I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious. Nathalie Emmanuel
character thinking roles
I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.
character writing intense
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. J. K. Rowling
character way film
I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. Ivan Reitman
character two profound
We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable. H. L. Mencken
character men contemporary-fiction
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.
character men ideas
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
character presidential political
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.
character civilization religion
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
character order consistency
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things. Gunnar Myrdal
character thinking play
I think there are parts of myself in every character I play. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
character play trying
I try to put myself into whatever character I play.
character peculiar difficult
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
character lasts firsts
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.
character house needs
I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house. Guillermo del Toro
character complicated
I like complicated characters. Greg Kinnear
character thinking elements
The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
character retail basements
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price? H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
character positivity religion
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
character scripts looks
I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential. Grant Bowler
character keys laughing
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
character men mets
The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies. Grant Morrison
character media different
I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.
character mean thinking
I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.
character writing numbers
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.
character men skeletons
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. Georg C. Lichtenberg
character humor men
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.