Quotes about character
character mean bully
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. John Cleese
character insecurity firsts
The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor. Lusia Strus
character actors praying
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
character world truth-is
I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one. Lurlene McDaniel
character order needs
Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
character science stories
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice. John Charles Polanyi
character play extensions
I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself. John Cena
character thinking play
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with. John Boorman
character interesting stories
Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character. John Boyega
character people trying
People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.
character hands my-best-friend
He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life. John Boyne
characters definitely guess wanting
You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?
characters hollywood satire
You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player. David Cronenberg
character display gotta teach
You can't teach character, ... You gotta display it.
character good-character bad-character
There are good characters and bad characters. Matt Stone
character smell actors
As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character. Matt Smith
character poetry inspire
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative. Matthew Arnold
character mirrors expression
When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression. Matthew Ashford
character perfection personality
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
character writing actors
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. Matt Lauria
character certain disposition
I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
character play black
I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black. Megalyn Echikunwoke
character play actresses
Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.
character dark careers
I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career. Meg Ryan
character passionate stories
Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either. Meg Cabot
character ends
I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard. Maxwell Caulfield
character responsibility america
The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations. Maxine Waters
character writing feelings
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation. May Sarton
character able obvious
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much. Max Walker
character night numbers
When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.
character dysfunction trying
, I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that. Max von Essen
character men judging
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Max Beerbohm
character class two
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.