Quotes about character
character thinking people
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. Milan Kundera
character valleys forged
Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley. Mike Matheny
character thinking skills
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit. Mike Leigh
character needs raw-materials
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
character location spirit
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
character judging-people interesting
I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
character writing ice-cream
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10. Miguel Ferrer
character born aggressive
If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer. Miguel Indurain
character thinking artist
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. Margaret Weis
character men mirrors
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror. Marcel Proust
character often-is opposites
The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.
character mean hard-work
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. Joseph Barbera
character strive should
We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior. Joseph B. Wirthlin
character hard-work men
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed. Joseph Addison
character men personality
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
character fate destiny
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.
character men vanity
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.
character thinking feelings
I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work. Jose Saramago
character sound needs
A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character. Jose Padilha
character men equilibrium
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. Jose Marti
character female sometimes
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones. Jorge Amado
character writing cutting
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing. Jorge Luis Borges
character fool tricks
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
character trying stories
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do. Jonny Lee Miller
character want opinion
When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
character jokes
I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes. Jonathan Winters
character suffering christ
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us. Joni Eareckson Tada
character commitment discipline
God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.
character writing phones
Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.
character writing pieces
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing. Jonathan Tropper
character writing mind
When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.
character play lectors
I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character. Kevin Smith
character play interesting
I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway. Kevin Spacey