Quotes about character
character unique thinking
I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British Peter Milligan
character imagination might
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create. Peter Mayhew
character half rehearsal
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
character thinking skins
I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
character trying way
I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them. Peter Mullan
character past news
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character. Peter Ackroyd
character writing tunes
There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.
character blonde whatever-it-takes
I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character. Peta Wilson
character dark fifty
When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots. Peter Stormare
character america hook
If you do a character, always make the character with a big question mark. Even if the character is very enigmatic and all over the place, make him always with a question mark, because if you turn a question mark upside down, like they do in South America in Spanish, then it becomes a hook.
character thinking people
Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. Peter MacNicol
character smell land
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape. Peter Matthiessen
character people hip-hop
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people. Questlove
character mind matter
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. Quintilian
character trying comeback
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. R. A. Salvatore
character past games
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
character choices fantasy
Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.
character blessing self
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
character power hands
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp
character thinking acting
I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character. Quentin Tarantino
character writing feet
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
character writing two
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
character writing journey
My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.
character good-luck thinking
Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.
character magic actors
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
character waltz colonels
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
character fiction said
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
character writing down-and
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won't allow their characters to go down those roads. I've never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I'll follow them.
character writing thinking
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
character mean men
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character? Plutarch
character men giving
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
character writing battle
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
character giving flattery
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.