Quotes about character
character thinking shows
Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show. Lisa Edelstein
character thinking interesting
I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.
character thinking tv-shows
I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is.
character fiction stories
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best. Linwood Barclay
character thinking people
Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
character what-if hook
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.
character cutting play
I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out! Lindsay Lohan
character mean thinking
I think it's a lot more interesting to watch a character go through a transition in a movie. You love her and then you almost want to not like her because she gets mean and gets 'lost' and everything.
character eye love-is
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another.
character giving six
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character. Linda Lavin
character acting moments
That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. Kerry Washington
character views play
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
character thinking cartoon
I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always wear the same outfit and everybody always remembers them for it, so I feel like I should do the same thing. Kesha
character adults flaws
It's not a character flaw to become an adult. Kenneth Lonergan
character writing people
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.
character profound sublime
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime. Jonathan Swift
character men talking
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
character support done
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
character years lasts
For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good. Jonathan Nolan
character television different
Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
character essence i-can
I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that. Naomie Harris
character thinking done
I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'
character men males
Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue. Naomi Wolf
character winning differences
If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end. Napoleon Hill
character thinking people
Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.
character influence persons
Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
character eye men
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!
character development care
Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
character humility way
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. Napoleon Bonaparte
character men france
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
character government wish
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
character victory organized
Character is victory organized.
character men delight
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.