Quotes about character
character gun political
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. Theodore Roosevelt
character directors doe
John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you. Theodore Bikel
character research way
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing. Theo Rossi
character people charity
The character of a people may be ruined by charity. Theodor Herzl
character self childhood
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. Theodor Adorno
character frustration thinking
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it. Terry O'Quinn
character stories driven
My stories are character driven. Terry McMillan
character simple talking
I let my characters do the talking, simple as that.
character trying levels
I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.
character people littles
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. Margaret Halsey
character men blood
The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?
character intelligent thinking
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others Margaret J. Wheatley
character men
The greatest possesion of man is character Marcus Garvey
character interesting people
Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it's much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It's much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing. Michael Fassbender
character decision might
Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.
character judging trying
Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.
character want agree
The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them. Michael Bloomberg
character flesh enough
When you have a show that's called Jessica Jones, if Jessica Jones isn't in a scene the rest of it become almost irrelevant until you earn other character storylines. You've got to flesh out those characters enough that you can travel. Melissa Rosenberg
character my-favorite comic
Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
character two interesting
To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?
character writing awkward
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.
character thinking long
I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent. Melissa McCarthy
character shy mess
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
character taste needs
The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy. Michelangelo
character form theater
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. Michael Tippett
character acting montana
I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.' Michael Steger
character play age
You never play age, you play character.
character letters four
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead. Michael Palmer
character people useless
I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me. Michael Palin
character years wings
For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me...I don't understand what there is in the American character...that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them. Michael Parenti
character arguing
It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. Michael Ondaatje
character eye simple
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.
character tests way
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.