Quotes about character
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." Vera Farmiga
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.
character long president
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. Ulysses S. Grant
character writing facts
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. Umberto Eco
character interesting way
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
character sometimes
Sometimes my characters are not myself.
character evil cracks
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor. Rodrigo Santoro
character mean voice
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean. Robin Wasserman
character giving acting
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. Robin Williams
character ideas one-line
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
character thinking stories
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story. Robin Hobb
character bird body
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath. Robert Wilson Lynd
character accomplishment understanding
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments. Robert Rosenberg
character eye feelings
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas. Robert Ryan
character eye people
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes. Robert Rodriguez
character actors kind
I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. Robert Redford
character cartoon hell
You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
character talking stupidity
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers. Robert Musil
character men effort
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. Robert E. Lee
character men principles
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
character past men
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
character jamaicans bad-things
I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing. Robert Cray