Quotes about character
character thinking play
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. Ryan Gosling
character thinking actors
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
character opportunity play
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
character play able
I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
character kind ifs
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
character journey thinking
I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
character thinking class
I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.
character literary-merit want
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read. Roxane Gay
character happy-place 140-character
Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.
character thinking play
I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy. Rowan Atkinson
character tvs needs
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
character timeless beans
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
character years done
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
character thinking choices
I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation. Robert Jordan
character
I like naming characters. Roddy Doyle
character writing want
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
character way mouths
The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.
character people culture
The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast. Robyn
character mean space
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!" Robert Stone
character thinking years
You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap. Robert Patrick
character intelligent men
It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium. Robert Owen
character reality ideas
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm not Robert Pattinson
character trying lasts
There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.
character hands play
You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.
character fighting guy
I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm the kind of guy who just randomly gets in fights. Yeah, I do it all the time. But, not really.
character thinking interesting
I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.
character lenses pouting
Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.
character moon play
It's easy to get stagnate, if you play the same character. In New Moon, I felt like I was going a little bit deeper.
character wine night
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry Robert Louis Stevenson
character men hands
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
character why-not weakness
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
character stories jason
Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason. Robert Englund
character horror-stories actors
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.