Quotes about character
character thinking roles
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains. Willem Dafoe
character suffering actors
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
character people giving
I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
character worry trying
I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
character mind stories
Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind. Wilbur Smith
character thinking pieces
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
character stories changed
As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it. Warren Spector
character celebration thanksgiving-day
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Ronald Reagan
character principles reputation
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.
character
Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai Saif Ali Khan
character people fiction
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact. I had the paradigm of certain people in my head who became my characters, but I never considered these people to be from a "certain sector of society," unless we agree that we're all from certain sectors of society. Said Sayrafiezadeh
character ideas symphony
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.
character men moral
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves Saint Augustine
character order law
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
character renegades wander
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.
character thinking doors
It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner. Tori Amos
character men black
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. Verne Troyer
character play perfect
I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
character interesting people
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises. Vera Brittain
character judging stories
Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters. Vera Farmiga
character victory watches
I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."
character want despise
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
character actors lawyer
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
character writing levels
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
character self research
The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
character encounters female
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
character self people
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character. Vance Packard
character play different
I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres out there to do, so many different characters to play, so many different amazing actors and directors to work with. I'm just following my gut, and if it's speaking to me, then I'm doing it. Vanessa Hudgens
character men easier
I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.
character cities body
In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture. Valerie Harper
character important news
Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character. Ugo Betti
character fighting thinking
It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people. Uma Thurman
character people creative
It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.