Quotes about character
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Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark. Stephnie Weir
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So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one. Guy Ritchie
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She was one of these character actresses who could fill any number of roles. She played a lot of 'earth mother' types, especially in later years. Leonard Maltin
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She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition.
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She's quite wonderful in that role. She's totally convincing as the mother who has to walk a fine line in raising that little boy. She's a terrific actress; there's never any sense that she's acting. She commits to any character she plays.
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She's a woman of character and morals and discipline. You don't find a lot of that in people in modern times. Brenda Strong
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The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.
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In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.
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I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely. Brina Palencia
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We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.
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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters. Deborah Eisenberg
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way. Felicity Kendal
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me. Forest Whitaker
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I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes. Brad Thor
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I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero? Esai Morales
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A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking. Christopher Lloyd
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I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven't read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn't meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17. Niels Arden Oplev
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Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause. Liam Neeson
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I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. Lynn Nottage
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Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy. Lee Tamahori
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Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
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No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
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When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as people as I can be. That's what I want to see when I go to the movies. Nicole Holofcener
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I've found that readers of historical romances really like series because they get to revisit characters and find out what happens with them. I've done several series. Nicole Jordan
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun. Nathan Kress
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I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person. Lauren Lapkus
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My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic. Leila Aboulela
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There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house. Lori Foster
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I like to jot down ideas on the back of envelopes and to recognise the potential value in small things. I also like the freedom to think without feeling compelled to write too early. Stories are often better if we can hold back and get to know the characters and the sounds of language. Nick Earls
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Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
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One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.
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I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them. Neil Marshall
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I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope. Lynn Flewelling