Quotes about character
character wonderful
Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character. Stephen Colbert
character looking-forward shows
I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it. Stephen Colbert
character self giving
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion. Stephen Colbert
character two use
I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely. Stephen Colbert
character boxing feelings
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character. Stephen Colbert
character ideas two
The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work. Stephen Colbert
character law limits
NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ Stephen Colbert
character past imagination
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little. Stella Adler
character flaws
I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws. Sarah Shahi
character political stories
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. Sarah Paulson
character acting actors
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. Vittorio Gassman
character actors roles
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. Ving Rhames
character play quality
Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story. Vincent Piazza
character political railroads
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan. William Howard Taft
character responsibility perfection
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection. William Howard Taft
character personality masonic
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out. William Howard Taft
character seems
We are what we seem to be. Willard Gaylin
character space personality
The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality. Will Smith
character looks body
Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has. Will Smith
character focus bagger
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid. Will Smith
character writing ideas
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded. Warren Ellis
character player personality
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. Vladimir Kramnik
character clothes identity
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it. Vivienne Westwood
character thinking two
I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.... photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love or respect for the human being that is portrayed. Vincent Van Gogh
character writing magic
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
character play different
I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great. Will Poulter
character play secret
I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character. Will Patton
character journey people
You want people to go see it by the hoards. And for there to be talk of the possibility of continuing the journey and the ride, if you will, with these characters that we spent so much time honing, and executing this film on all levels, is super exciting. Will Packer
character thinking actors
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. Will Oldham
character pigs want
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. Walter Annenberg
character challenges tests
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges. Walter Annenberg
character age cheerful
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates in clearing away traces of our own age ... Walter Benjamin
character mean thinking
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now. Virginia Woolf