Quotes about character
character scary trying
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it. Sam Raimi
character shed
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. Sam Neill
character talking silence
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. Sam Mendes
character goes-on lifestyle
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
character feet age
My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character. Sally Hawkins
character shoes acting
I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
character opportunity emotional
If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you. Sally Field
character eye opportunity
I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.
character thinking years
For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.
character opportunity play
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
character trying actors
I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.
character thinking stuff
I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character. Sacha Baron Cohen
character successful reflection
A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. S. Truett Cathy
character shoes boots
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. Ruth Rendell
character cutting insult
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
character actors turns
Every actor turns everything round to their character. Ruth Wilson
character complicated
I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.
character eye fire
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens. Rumi
character envy way
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
character envy defects
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
character expectations optimism
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
character knowing acting
Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character. Ron Silver
character goal world
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. Ron Rash
character focus trying
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
character writing thinking
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
character blood actors
I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. Ron Perlman
character writing ideas
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story. Roger Zelazny
character novel
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel Roland Barthes
character thinking hysteria
There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled. Susan Sarandon
character anxiety important
Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.
character entering jukebox
Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.
character thinking use
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.' Susan Orlean
character america personality
America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover. Susan Cain