Quotes about character
character thinking left
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. Sean Bean
character thinking excess-baggage
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
character fighting class
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
character very-good ifs
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
character italian knowing
Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later. Sean Connery
character long care
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
character guy tough
I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot Scott Adkins
character imagination use
If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought. Scott Cohen
character play soul
There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films.
character doors people
Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul. Scott Bakula
character thinking rocks
Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine. Mick Jagger
character white house
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. Michelle Malkin
character hockey wish
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one Michael Vartan
character study dean
I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson! Michael Welch
character stereotype born
Every character when born is a stereotype. Michael Patrick King
character play mexican
In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of lines but was in the entire movie. At the same time, everyone gets typecast, and I decided that if I was going to play a stereotypical role, I was going to play it like a three-dimensional character. Michael Pena
character needed
I needed to stay in the character. Michael Pitt
character saws going-for-it
I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.
character animal people
I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system. Michael Pollan
character way figures
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out. Sidney Sheldon
character thinking hands
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process
character thinking people
I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
character creative excitement
There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
character home journey
As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey. Sidney Poitier
character stories comedy
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. Seth Gordon
character nuance different
The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character. Seth Gabel
character boys men
Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
character cutting interesting
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep. Seth Grahame-Smith
character thinking feelings
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
character views stories
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
character men purpose
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see
character wells formulas
Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't. Seth MacFarlane
character two drawing
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.