Quotes about character
character always-trying challenges
You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself. Joel Kinnaman
character thinking people
I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.
character novel
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. Joe Klein
character thinking plot
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. Joe Hill
character blow people
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do. Joan Severance
character color alive
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. Joan Miro
character fighting boxing
You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do. Jimmy Smits
character adversity nobility
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character. George Ade
character soul utterance
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
character mean quality
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
character liberty weight
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
character epic thrones
I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. Geoff Johns
character league justice
We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.
character passion trying
I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.
character writing fiction
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. Garry Trudeau
character discussion
I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character. Garry Kasparov
character games chess
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
character player psychology
Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.
character order together
The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character. Gabriel Mann
character mean thinking
I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this." When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic." I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.
character play people
It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.
character secret unexpected
As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected. Franka Potente
character spinning wheels
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. Mahatma Gandhi
character
I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character. James Taylor
character ideas issues
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. James Stockdale
character entitlement
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
character thinking issues
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
character judging cynical
If you're constantly stepping outside of the character and judging them, you'll never really be able to fully engage because you'll always be slightly cynical. James Norton
character trying spend-time
You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.
character dark ideas
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us, James Nesbitt
character men action
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. James Mill
character people sacred
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. James Monroe
character rights important
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.