Quotes about character
character ideas progress
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Mercy Otis Warren
character color imagination
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. Mercedes McCambridge
character thinking impact
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. Mercedes Lackey
character decision development
We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. Michelle Rodriguez
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 play games
If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.
character instruction servant
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.
character people depth
The depth and strength of our character is defined by our moral code. People only reveal themselves when they're thrown out of the usual conditions of their lives. That's when the truth of who they are is revealed...
character presidential taste
This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed. John Quincy Adams
character grace age
There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture. John Owen
character men past
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. John Milton
character men age
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. Norman Douglas
character usa long
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing. Norman Jewison
character thinking people
I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
character giving advice
The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise. Norm MacDonald
character creating different
Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects. Noel Fisher
character goal actors
My goal has been to be a great character actor. Nolan Gerard Funk