Quotes about character
character boys thinking
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women. Edward Albee
character play want
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.
character reality everyday
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
character thinking action
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.
character people personality
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
character kids mind
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.
character environment thesis
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
character writing play
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.
character play two
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
character unconscious
I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.
character thinking people
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people. Edie Falco
character voice different
That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors. Eddie George
character insight
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had. Eckhart Tolle
character
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
character complete initially mask written
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. Rene Auberjonois
characters known lived man people talk
The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job. Lucinda Williams
character fill finding fit mandate miracles question shoes tough
The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, and finding someone to fit the character of Jeffrey was a challenge, if not a miracle. But when miracles happen, you don't question them. Jason Alexander
characters
I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. Janina Gavankar
character play people
I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. Holland Taylor
character people fearless
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid. Hermann Hesse
character men tests
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Henry Taylor
character men sailing
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. Henry Van Dyke
character writing easy
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
character long half
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. John Jay Chapman
character men ideas
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.
character giving people
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character. John Irving
character thinking trying
I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.
character stories fans
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
character differences important
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.
character effort world
The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.
character interest situation
I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
character six gone
For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey. John Huston
character light darkness
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. John Hurt