Quotes about character
character joy parks
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining. John Lasseter
character stories imagery
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
character ideas inspire
There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.
character memorable successful
You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.
character drawing slow-motion
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
character vicious difficulty
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. John Lancaster Spalding
character female difficulty
I've always had difficulties with female characters. John le Carre
character ideas down-and
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. John Kricfalusi
character tvs liquor
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
character thinking play
I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality. John Barrowman
character writing exercise
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off. John Banville
character trying different
I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
character play want
I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me. Jodelle Ferland
character way dignity
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. Jodie Foster
character acting moments
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
character people focus
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
character careers looks
I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.
character play want
As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.
character laughing mind
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us. Jimmy Durante
character thinking scary
If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel. Julie Benz
character reset-button next
The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.
character realizing
You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.
character opportunity reality
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. Julie Bowen
character play boss
I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play. Judith Light
character thinking giving
I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
character men people
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work. Josh Holloway
character jumping ensemble
[ 1600 Penn] is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world. Josh Gad
character sides convincing
I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing. Josh Hartnett
character interesting looks
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
character weekend bored
I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.
character people likes
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
character interesting giving
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places. Josh Hutcherson
character play stories
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.