Quotes about character
character thinking people
Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. Peter MacNicol
character smell land
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape. Peter Matthiessen
character people hip-hop
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people. Questlove
character mind matter
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. Quintilian
character trying comeback
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. R. A. Salvatore
character past games
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
character choices fantasy
Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.
character blessing self
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
character power hands
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. Quentin Crisp
character thinking acting
I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character. Quentin Tarantino
character writing feet
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
character writing two
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
character writing journey
My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.
character good-luck thinking
Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.
character magic actors
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
character waltz colonels
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
character fiction said
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
character writing down-and
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won't allow their characters to go down those roads. I've never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I'll follow them.
character writing thinking
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
character mean men
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character? Plutarch
character men giving
Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
character writing battle
It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
character giving flattery
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
character men self
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
character habit
Character is inured habit.
character giving personality
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
character mind disposition
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
character long habit
Character is simply habit long continued.
character
The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing. Pia Zadora
character careers color
It will be very hard to get out of Bond. It will be the pictures I do between Bonds that will color my career, that will give my career longevity after this franchise is over ... I will be stamped with this character for life. Pierce Brosnan
character acting world
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
character guy cinema
I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.
character trying would-be
Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character. Pierre-Auguste Renoir