Quotes about character
character play personality
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character. John Hodgman
character stories villain
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
character writing thinking
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. John Hawkes
character writing thinking
I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
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
character interesting quality
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
character larger-than-life boyhood
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
character years challenges
I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing. Joel McHale
character stories looks
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested. Joel Kinnaman
character thinking superhero
I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.
character looks kind
I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.
character people different
You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.
character interesting trying
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.