Quotes about character
character years bored
For 15 years, I've been playing the same character-which is myself-and I'm bored with 'myself'. Elle Macpherson
character writing two
When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image. Eric Kripke
character ideas what-if
When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"
character heart honest
Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.
character justice people
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. Eric Holder
character dark quirky
I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters. Mischa Barton
character love-is wish
I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own... Missi Pyle
character people littles
I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.
character love-is actors
I really love being a character actor.
character reality ongoing
The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. Paulo Freire
character men evil
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness. Philip Sidney
character yellow impact
Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine! Peter Cushing
character thinking years
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious. Peter Dinklage
character space
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. Peter De Vries
character tree should
Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates Peter Drucker
character tasks genius
There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.
character leader quality
Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.
character occupation fictional-character
I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. Penelope Lively
character grace gold
It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more. Peggy Fleming
character order mirrors
What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. Paulo Coelho
character dialogue wacky
I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue. Marlon Wayans
character theatre who-you-are
Nobody "becomes" a character. You can't act unless you are who you are. Marlon Brando
character dove inferno
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. Marisha Pessl
character meticulous spilling
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.
character hands drawing
The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type. Marjane Satrapi
character way etc
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
character ifs
If everything was going smoothly you would never build character. Maria Sharapova
character air shows
Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air. Megan Mullally
character roles film
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters. Meat Loaf
character thinking perfect
When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a character that happens to be perfect for them, then you make it happen. Maurissa Tancharoen
character writing years
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry. May Sarton
character people mind
What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people. Max Landis
character writing people
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. Max Hastings