Quotes about character
character worry want
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. Stephen King
character screw-ups plot
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.
character rocks choices
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. Stephen Ambrose
character thinking trouble
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character. Stefan Edberg
character play people
Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face. Stanley Tucci
character reality blessing
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
character use directors
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.
character home thinking
To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home. Stan Lee
character kids thinking
Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.
character men judging
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Sophie Swetchine
character able way
I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So a lot of it really entails sit-downs with them, determining who she is, where she came from, and why she reacts a certain way, and then I was really able to expand upon a lot of that and create a lot of that story on my own. Sophia Bush
character influence
I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters. Tea Obreht
character pounds stories
If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it. Taylor Lautner
character people compliment
People don't usually compliment your character. Taylor Swift
character responsibility action
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
character ideas acting
I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with. Stacy Keach
character looks driven
I look for characters who are emotionally driven.
character two soul
If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker. Stephenie Meyer
character thinking breaking-dawn
He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.
character opportunity long
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. Marco Rubio
character perfection lasts
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. Marcus Aurelius
character eye home
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.
character tasks
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
character soul mind
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
character hypocrite perfection
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
character men action
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
character perfect lasts
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
character actors roles
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. Marcello Mastroianni
character age mules
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. Marcia Gay Harden
character europe personality
You know like it has its own personality, its own character. Marc Newson
character growth television
You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television. Marc Maron
character spy indiana
In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond. Marc Guggenheim
character different movement
All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films. Marc Forster