Quotes about character
character life time ultimate ways work writer
I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time. Peter Gould
characters dislike empire evolved second strikes wonderful
I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge. Pierce Brown
characters films gwyneth love loved quirky royal
I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that. Phoebe Tonkin
characters good matter responsibility share whether
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same. Park Chan-wook
characters encounter hardest
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page. Philip Kerr
characters chips fights good heroes iconic lone mojo ranger rides serious underdog
The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down. Mel Odom
character explored fail films horror plays scare themes
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. Martin Henderson
character land map open plan rural spaces vision
The map is a vision of the township that really set in place a land-use plan that preserves the open spaces and rural character of the township.
character final forming hands lies
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands Anne Frank
characters disney girls identified looked princesses
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with. Angelina Jolie
character chasing job kids nice plain shows wore
The kids did a real nice job on (Peterson). They did it by chasing him and I think they just plain wore him out. That just shows the character of these kids.
characters everybody good key side treat
The key to writing real characters is not to treat everybody like a real person and give everybody a good side and a bad. Jon Favreau
character child coaching empower enhance job kids team unafraid
Their No. 1 job is to enhance the character of each of the kids they get in their groups, and to empower them and make them unafraid to take risks. Each child has to matter. If you're coaching a team with 10 kids, the 10th child has to be as important as the first child.
characters sure true
These are characters they know and love, and you want to make sure to be true to those characters.
characters constantly culture defying effective kinds male operating places powerful satisfying time viewers
These kinds of characters are so satisfying to male viewers because culture has told them to be powerful and effective and to get things done, and at the same time they're living, operating and working in places that are constantly defying that. Robert Thompson
character coming guys
These guys fight; they don't quit. We just keep coming back. That's the character of this team. They've always been that way.
character eight five guys runs score
These guys don't quit. It showed a lot of character for us to be down by eight and score five runs in the seventh.
character totally
It's been totally nuts. My whole character is devotion.
character creating days exactly four fun half hours work
It's been fun. I've only done half the movie and it's crazy. They're always writing. They're writing and writing and writing. You work for four hours in two days and it's done. It's pretty much nothing. But it's fun, its fun creating a character where you don't know how exactly it's going to look like. Justin Timberlake
character chelsea players saw
It's a new Chelsea with a lot of new players but I saw our old character. Claudio Ranieri
character football lets
It lets you know about the character of your football team, LaMont Jordan
character close coaches distract good job pull stay stick stuff tells trying worry
It kind of tells you the character of the team. Just how close we are. When stuff like that happens, you can go two ways. It can distract you and pull you apart, or you (can) stick together. The coaches have done a good job of trying to not let us worry about what else is going on. But just stay close to the family.
character gives
It kind of gives a character to the campus.
character charge jones lee takes
This is not the movies. There is no Tommy Lee Jones character who comes in and takes charge of everything.
character ordinary total
This is something out of the ordinary that is total out of character for him.
character thinking play
When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. Taylor Swift
character interesting guy
The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way. Stephen Lang
character giving secret
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.
character alive language
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu. Stephen Leacock
character writing important
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important. Stephen King
character writing tasks
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.
character thinking people
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
character play judging
You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them. Ellen Pompeo