Quotes about character
character challenges actors
You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character. Michael Ealy
character winning careers
I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end. Michael Douglas
character years careers
My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
character people mystery
To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character. Michael Emerson
character trying acting
I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines. Michael B. Jordan
character world sides
I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters. Randy Quaid
character writing thinking
I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them. Randy Newman
character way sympathetic
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. Randa Abdel-Fattah
character home house
When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live." Ralph Lauren
character race evil
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. Ralph Adams Cram
character sides different
Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself. Ralph Bakshi
character cities people
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
character people meditation
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face. Rajneesh
character giving meditation
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.
character interesting should
The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen. Rachel Weisz
character stories
I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.
character expectations community
A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community Sheena Iyengar
character interesting common-experience
If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there is something at Christmas that unites everybody. It already sets a stage within the stage. Shane Black
character differences choices
The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. George W. Bush
character government community
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
character commitment compassion
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
character stories ifs
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. George V. Higgins
character thinking reader
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
character together stories
I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes George Tillman, Jr.
character names guy
I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".
character class three
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. George Orwell
character cutting littles
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it. George R. R. Martin
character writing exercise
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.
character black-and-white grey
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
character emotional attachment
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
character should-have choices
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
character writing play
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
character grieving care
You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.