Quotes about character
character conflict inner-conflict
Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts. Jacqueline Carey
character personality television
I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters. Jackie Gleason
character always-trying action
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. Christopher Lambert
character acting boring
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.
character mean play
I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film. Christopher Lee
character trying world
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
character age opinion
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.
character thinking might
Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character. Gaspard Ulliel
character mean consciousness
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness Gary Snyder
character natural educated
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. Gary Vaynerchuk
character landscape
We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. Fritz Todt
character people may
I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally. Fritz Sauckel
character perfection training
Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection. Fulton J. Sheen
character thinking-about-you caring
As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character. Freddie Highmore
character guitar august
It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.
character trying different
I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
character heart locks
Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there. Frank Oz
character people tests
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. Frank Miller
character anxiety achievement
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. Howard Barker
character sympathetic
I don't like sympathetic characters.
character white pages
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. Hosea Ballou
character noble disgusting
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
character oil promise
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!
character consistency ends
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. Horace
character different done
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Hank Azaria
character three done
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
character men self
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition. Hannah Arendt
character may something-new
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
character greatness two
The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away. Guy Finley
character theater persons
Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person. Grace Gummer
character men people
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. Gouverneur Morris
character thinking race
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made. Gore Vidal
character want tvs
When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do. Gina Holden