Quotes about character
character thinking drawing
The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline. Hayao Miyazaki
character play actors
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. Harry Hamlin
character best-character
Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.
character light soul
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded. Harry Emerson Fosdick
character tests virtue
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
character trying quality
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
character tested
No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
character kids white
Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters. Francesca Lia Block
character writing cutting
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
character acting want
That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me. Fran Kranz
character home gone
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home. Fran Drescher
character mirrors climbing
I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror. Forest Whitaker
character human-condition grows
I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.
character thinking people
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
character tribes culture
I was pretty much consumed by this character. Even when I was off, I was continually searching to find something else new about [Idi] Amin, and to embed myself deeper into the culture to the point that, in the end, I was so entrenched that I could tell what tribe someone was from just by looking at them.
character stay-true projects
I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.
character thinking uganda
I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.
character play light
I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.
character together connections
I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you.
character uganda trying
Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.
character thinking gossip
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction. Fran Lebowitz
character people literature
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
character firsts individual
[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character. George Washington
character government revolution
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
character would-be found
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
character greatness great-character
It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.
character spy ambassadors
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.
character men important
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
character adversity liberty
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
character men firsts
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
character government office
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
character america people
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.
character important firsts
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.