Quotes about character
character imagination trying
I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend. Elle Fanning
character writing interesting
Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves. Ellen DeGeneres
character gay community
When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.
character voice fire
It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
character fate loan
No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.
character fortune miscellaneous
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
character moderation proof
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character....
character quality ridiculous
The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]
character taste common
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
character men expression
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men as created in His image are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral. Francis Schaeffer
character house heaven
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven. Francis Quarles
character play years
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting. Ian McDiarmid
character self views
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust. Ian Mcewan
character female desert
Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.
characters confident elizabeth
I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite. Cecily Strong
characters healthy tried
I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. Steve Buscemi
characters
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.' Lorrie Moore
characters high outline points rest stubborn surprise wonder
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story. Julie Kagawa
characters finally might novels shape
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter. John Crowley
character familiar goodness heart lord qualities taught thank
Thank goodness for Ron. He's taught the play, he's familiar with the play and he has some of the same qualities (as Whiteside). The character is a Little Lord Fauntleroy type, but he also has a heart of gold.
characters coming hands home juicy mind parts rather seem wife woman
I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?' Hope Davis
characters comedy extreme feeling feels people possibly respond response
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh. Jason Robert Brown
character fictional himself inventing major problem reader seems taking works
I am made nervous, as someone who works in the same vineyard, by the idea of inventing himself as a fictional character, ... It seems unnecessary. It seems taking a major liberty. And the problem with it is if you invent the fictional character and you take this liberty, then the reader is going to think what other liberties? David Halberstam
character play rooms
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional. Hugo Weaving
character thinking play
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
character roots able
Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them. Janet Evanovich
character voice firsts
I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'But I often don't agree with what they say,' I protested. The lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction I make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. Neither, I have found, are many of my readers. Jane Rule
character costumes body
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else. Jane Levy
character years knowing
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. Jane Pauley
character gay thinking
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles. Jane Lynch
character men righteous-man
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides
character gold literature
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
character play normal
I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person. Ethan Embry