Quotes about character
character men trying
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. Ben Kingsley
character play trying
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.
character roots behaviour
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
character squad people
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. Ed McBain
character roots balance
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
character views numbers
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater. Ed Murray
character mean cities
Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be. Elizabeth Dole
character passion history
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am. Elizabeth Bowen
character plot should
Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.
character half firsts
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.
character meetings
Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.
character found
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
character people growth
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
character self add
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
character forgiving looks
No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just it. Elinor Glyn
character intimate-conversation interesting
The intimate conversations have its moments, because you have to sell the characters, because there is so much going on. It's so easy to get lost in the special effects and forget about the performances. The dialogue scenes have been great. It's been great working with Bryan and the writers to find where we're going and what's the story. Yeah, it's been really, really interesting. Eleanor Tomlinson
character dollars stories
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing. Elena Anaya
character unique play
How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. Edward Herrmann
character mean guy
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. Dominic Chianese
character thinking play
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off! Dominic Monaghan
character thinking years
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
character nashville interesting
If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting. Dito Montiel
character thinking rocks
I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character. David Bowie
character thinking funny-things
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny. Dave Rowntree
character thinking aggravation
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
character evil moral
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user. Dave Ramsey
character winning people
Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.
character space decision
You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us. David Niven
character widows-and-orphans expectations
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. David Nicholls
character mean healing
At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites, it is certain that the incidence of chronic and diversified illnesses will abate, and the general health of all mankind will be much improved. This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.
character giving guy
But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go. Aaron Eckhart
character convinced deceit happen type
We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won't happen again,
character looks
Looks like that's the character of what we have right now. Phil Jackson