Quotes about character
character color hue
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. John Locke
character talking voice
I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk. John Leguizamo
character play hilarity
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.
character thinking people
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me. Pete Postlethwaite
character writing goal
The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters. Pete Hamill
character angel play
When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph. Pearl Cleage
character writing thinking
When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor. Pedro Almodovar
character males female
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.
character talking exhibitionism
All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.
character aspect novel
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. Piers Anthony
character men wife
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. Phyllis Bottome
character thinking stories
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not. Philip Pullman
character intuition world
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal. Rachel Cusk
character civilization dumb
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy. Queen Victoria
character atoms elements
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole. Pythagoras
character different roles
Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different. Piper Perabo
character love-is people
I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way
character play community
It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.
character musical elements
Music is a defining element of character. Plato
character games video
Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool. Josie Maran
character ideas needs
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character. Joshua Waitzkin
character humility echoes
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live. Joseph Joubert
character perspective stories
Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film. Joseph Kosinski
character sea cities
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. Joseph C. Lincoln
character men squares
I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square. Joss Whedon
character writing inspiration-to-write
I write to be the characters that I am not.
character mean writing
I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.
character power doe
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
character simple challenges
I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen. Kodi Smit-McPhee
character play singing
I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier. Kevin Kline
character epic fantasy
ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. Kevin J. Anderson
character creative directors
It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be. Kevin Hart
character men thinking
On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.