Quotes about character
character angel men
As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
character medicine principles
But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, in to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself. Samuel L. Jackson
character thinking play
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
character different describe-myself
How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself. Salma Hayek
character thinking ifs
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
character thinking remembered
I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
character writing men
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel. Salman Rushdie
character writing novel
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
character who-we-are human-nature
Our lives teach us who we are.
character exercise tough
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. Ryan Reynolds
character matter auditions
Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?
character emotional vision
He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.
character cutting strange
This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.
character work-out rude
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. Rudy Rucker
character perfection steps
For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character Rudolf Steiner
character perfect trying
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
character interesting support
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support. Wendie Malick
character southern perpetuating
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character. Walton Goggins
character cutting action
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
character men play
I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power. Wangari Maathai
character thinking personality
One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters. W. H. Auden
character self two
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
character thinking black
I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius. Tracee Ellis Ross
character dark
I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty. Tony Vincent
character thinking theatre
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. Tony Shalhoub
character thinking interesting
The characters that arent what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them. Valorie Curry
character want changed
I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed. Uri Geller
character fiction granted
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. Ursula K. Le Guin
character writing people
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.
character reality two
What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.
character practice boxing
James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me. Tyrese Gibson
character like-you scene
I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is. Tye Sheridan
character cutting dark
Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out. Ty Burrell