Quotes about character
character acting situation
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. Jim Jarmusch
character thinking plot
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
character voice needs
The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the one-time-only characters that I don't remember where the voice I used came from. Jim Cummings
character home makeup
I had to be on the set for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' because my character was interacting with Bob Hoskins. It's a lot of 'hurry up and wait.' So there I was, at 2 a.m., sitting in a trailer at Griffith Park trying to stay awake. And I said to myself, 'This stinks.' The way I do it is better. I go into the studio about 10 a.m. There's no makeup to worry about. I can wear whatever I want. As soon I get there, I'm good to go. I record my stuff and go home.
character world want
I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world. Jim DeMint
character understanding may
The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept. Jessica Mitford
character play actors
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. Jessica Pare
character texas literature
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. Jessica Savitch
character actors known
Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor. Jess Weixler
character writing past
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view. Jess Walter
character able momentum
I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily. Jesse Eisenberg
characters move studied understand
I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. Jean M. Auel
characters cry either five human missed understand understanding
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult. David Small
characters coming hands home juicy mind parts rather seem wife woman
I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?' Hope Davis
characters comedy extreme feeling feels people possibly respond response
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh. Jason Robert Brown
character fictional himself inventing major problem reader seems taking works
I am made nervous, as someone who works in the same vineyard, by the idea of inventing himself as a fictional character, ... It seems unnecessary. It seems taking a major liberty. And the problem with it is if you invent the fictional character and you take this liberty, then the reader is going to think what other liberties? David Halberstam
character play rooms
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. Hugo Weaving
character thinking play
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
character thinking actors
I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.
character thinking evil
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one. Humphrey Bogart
character men two
Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters. Honore de Balzac
character lakes serenity
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.
character thermometers temperament
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
character people liberty
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. Ibrahim Babangida
character demeanor exciting floor game gave great last minute played poise poor saying sure
He played a great game, and they gave him 'Kobe (stinks)' or something at the end. I thought that was really poor sportsmanship, especially for a game as competitive and exciting as that game was, down to the last minute to be decided. I'm sure his demeanor and his poise and his character on the floor are saying lots. Phil Jackson
character quality ridiculous
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.] Francois de La Rochefoucauld
character taste common
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
character men expression
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral. Francis Schaeffer
character house heaven
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. Francis Quarles
character play years
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. Ian McDiarmid
character self views
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust. Ian Mcewan
character female desert
Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.
character guy fit
If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit guy. Hugh Jackman