Quotes about character
character ideas people
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie. Mike Myers
character thinking names
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
character mean eight
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week. Joe Morton
character mean thinking
I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
character stories letters
I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters. Joe Murray
character reality mind
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage. Joe Dante
character talking tip-of-the-iceberg
Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg. Jodi Picoult
character irritation people
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
character flaws these-days
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. John Green
character wake-up body
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
character writing thinking
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.
character ideas special
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
character hair car
If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine. Pat Schneider
character poor fine
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Mark Twain
character enemy indication
Enemies are an indication of character. Mary Roberts Rinehart
character style towers
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. Martin Filler
character building-up levers
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. Martin Farquhar Tupper
character views nihilism
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. Martin Heidegger
character fighting judging
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing. Marshall Allman
character compassion matter
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
character men sensitive-man
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Marquis de Sade
character long chemistry
You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters. Mark McGrath
character men rights
The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character, and the editors and producers make suggestions and get notes and things. But you're talking about Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. They're two of the best people in the world. The notes are just things like, "This is absolutely brilliant." Mark Millar
character skills results
If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
character ideas people
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.
character thinking historical
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Mario Vargas Llosa
character roger actresses
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. Marilyn Monroe
character people wigs
Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden. Nicki Minaj
character thinking play
No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves. Nick Moran
character priorities habit
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. Nick Saban
character play excited
I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played. Nick Offerman
character unique dreamer
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
character illinois watches
I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.