Quotes about character
character talking play
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it. Victor Garber
character joy faults
Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche Victor Hugo
character people cooking
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
character sea heaven
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
character writing thinking
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page. Veronica Roth
character thinking people
Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach
character ideas following
Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
character two feet
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. Robert Fortune
character goal discipline
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself Robert Foster Bennett
character voice giving
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice. Robert Fripp
character way
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. Robert Boswell
character sunday people
What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way. Robert Benchley
character oedipus people
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation? . . . One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions. Rita Dove
character soul understanding
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters. Rita Mae Brown
character movie-love people
Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie. Rick McCallum
character
Have character, but don't be a character. Richard Marcinko
character counter-attack flaws
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
character two interesting
Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show. Richard Masur
character voice actors
I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.
character thinking details
As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details. Richard Dormer
character breathing sound
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.
character energy sophisticated
Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished. Richard Eder
character actors
In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed. Richard Dreyfuss
character pieces able
But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment. Renee O'Connor
character quality together
The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character. Renee Fleming
character past razors
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being. Thornton Wilder
character views psychology
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be. Thomas Nagel
character men may
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Thomas More
character names tree
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters. Thomas Paine
character simple men
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.
character pride men
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
character self political
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
character political politics
It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.