Quotes about character
character waltz colonels
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. Quentin Tarantino
character fiction said
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
character writing down-and
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won't allow their characters to go down those roads. I've never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I'll follow them.
character writing thinking
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
character home plot
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with. Terry Eagleton
character men mark
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. Terry Goodkind
character sound fiction
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
character mind littles
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
character done
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. Terrence Howard
character home trying
The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home as you try things out on your family. Sometimes you stay in character unbeknownst to you and keep practicing.
character play roles
Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind
character self levels
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level. Terry Brooks
character four want
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
character thinking creating
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect. Tennessee Williams
character simplicity humans
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
character play theatre
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
character writing desire
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
character design attention
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the readers attention. Ted Naifeh
character play
You have to like the characters you play. Ted McGinley
character dying henry-v
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. Ted Lange
character great-experiences theater
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience. Tcheky Karyo
characters radio
The film is very 'Nashville'-like in the sense that there are all of these characters who intermingle because we're on the same radio show, Lily Tomlin
characters dealt draft freedom material might situations sprung worries
The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later. Jill McCorkle
character people mind
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives. Neal Pollack
character eye cutting
Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races. Neal Stephenson
character long-walks sketching
Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive. Rebecca Hall
character acting pages
I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.
character looks contradiction
I always look for contradiction in a character.
character america stories
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories. Rebel Wilson
character america would-be
My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
character acting different
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet! Robert Duvall
character two challenges
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
character trying actors
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.