Quotes about character
character years ideas
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show. Michael Shanks
character play impossible
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
character play loner
A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies. Michael Shannon
character magic stories
Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
character play majority
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
character love-is play
I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy. Michael Sheen
character reputation extremes
I suppose I've got a reputation for playing quite extreme characters and making them quite believable.
character reality play
Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.
character vampire fans
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
character men thinking
In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life.
character surface one-thing
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
character facts shut-up
They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up! Michael Scott
character sitting alive
Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.
character thinking unhappy-childhood
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not. Michael Moorcock
character writing plot
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.
character stupidity
That wasn't love; that was stupidity. Sherrilyn Kenyon
character ideas good-ideas
Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.
character men nations
It is character that counts in a nation as in a man. Theodore Roosevelt
character law self
Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
character individual indispensable
Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.
character two race
In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.
character men careers
If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.
character birth-place principles
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
character gun political
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
character directors doe
John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you. Theodore Bikel
character research way
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing. Theo Rossi
character people charity
The character of a people may be ruined by charity. Theodor Herzl
character self childhood
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. Theodor Adorno
character frustration thinking
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it. Terry O'Quinn
character stories driven
My stories are character driven. Terry McMillan
character simple talking
I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
character trying levels
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
character people littles
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey