Quotes about character
character extensions
I'm interested in music as an extension of character. Noah Baumbach
character writing laughing
I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character. Nina Conti
character negative approach
I never approach a character from a negative place. Nina Arianda
character insecure long
Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.
character style episodes
When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it. Misha Collins
character reality emotional
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas. Mike White
character compassion trying
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
character thinking appreciate
I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you appreciate the anxiety that comes with having to try to sell a line, or with trying to own a character.
character independent independence
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character. Mike Tyson
character people fool
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one. Miguel de Cervantes
character play acting
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
character men simple
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
character perfect long
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B. John Guare
character kids thinking
A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones. John French Sloan
character power thinking
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think. John Galsworthy
character writing novelists
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. John Dos Passos
character records phases
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
character opportunity creating
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories. John Dykstra
character always-trying kind
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. John Eldredge
character men may
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. John Osborne
character darkness doubt
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience. John Ortberg
character law office
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.
character people cartoon
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. John Oliver
character
Success is good for the character. John Mortimer
character gay play
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference. John Michael Higgins
character unnecessary force
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. John Desmond Bernal
character interest
What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests. John Dewey
character men special
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.
character thinking actors
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. John Candy
character
You can escape into a character.
character might association
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. John Astin
character play bears
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. Johan Huizinga
character play indulge-in
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. Joel Edgerton