Quotes about character
character passing-away done
Normally you don't have the benefit of preparing someone to pay homage to you and what you've done in your life. Usually, you pass away and someone does a tribute to your character and who you were during a specific period of your life. Usher
character writing fiction
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. V. S. Naipaul
character mind form
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. Tryon Edwards
character superhero
It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else. Sutton Foster
character thinking escapism
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.
character talking done
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
character names needs
It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact. Susanna Clarke
character thinking soul
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us. Susanna Kaysen
character doctors perception
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.
character wrinkles hair
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.
character boards actors
And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a pleasure to see how they’ve embodied the characters and brought them to life. Suzanne Collins
character writing gray-matter
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character. Tate Taylor
character dramatic ifs
I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
character kind knows
I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't. Taryn Manning
character people criminals
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
character guy feelings
With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."
character thinking play
When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. Taylor Swift
character interesting guy
The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way. Stephen Lang
character
What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.
character giving secret
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.
character alive language
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu. Stephen Leacock
character writing important
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important. Stephen King
character writing tasks
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.
character thinking people
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
character games care
Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.
character criticism mouths
And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.
character next firsts
The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate...
character writing mad
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories,
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.
character expression might
So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny. Steve Martin
character littles
Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do. Steve Burton
character matter stuff
I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part. Steve Buscemi
character thinking play
I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.