Quotes about character
character people actors
My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters. Yvonne Strahovski
character done world
I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.
character color race
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. Yves Klein
character years anxiety
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem. Yves Saint Laurent
character thinking skills
I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble. William H. Macy
character people excellence
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
character producers
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.
character play want
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
character tricks believer
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
character personality enough
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies. William Hazlitt
character personality merit
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
character eye air
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.
character greatness purpose
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
character decision firmness
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
character conceited ignorant
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
characteristics chaucer intensity
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
character eye judging
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
character opportunity years
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon. William Devane
character trying age
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
character community going-away
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. William Davis
character evil attendance
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character. William E. Gladstone
character men years
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character. Wendell Phillips
character culture answers
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers. Wendell Berry
character mind stories
By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character, Walter Murch
character reality thinking
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel. Walter Mosley
character writing blood
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.
character laughing make-me-laugh
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. W. Somerset Maugham
character men average
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
character personality quality
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
character personality culture
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
character yield harmony
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
character enough knows
You can never know enough about your characters
character writing giving
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.