Quotes about character
character writing needs
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad. Anne Lamott
character new-relationship miracle
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
character worry plot
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
character indispensable
Few characters in history are indispensable. Albert Bushnell Hart
character reality emotional
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug. Albert Hofmann
character pride animal
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition. Albert J. Nock
character play details
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared. Albert Brooks
character goal news
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isnt to solve the worlds problems. My character wasnt even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- theres no hope unless we do that.
character thinking dimes
One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
character men thinking
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator. Albert Camus
character wonder crime
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
character men history
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
character writing may
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
character able stories
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them. Alexander Gould
character who-i-am people
I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great. America Ferrera
character power-of-thought
Thought creates character. Annie Besant
character writing two
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'
character silhouettes costumes
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. Clemence Poesy
character judgment loses
To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
character order way
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When the product isn't yet good enough, the way you compete is by making better products. In order to make better products, the architecture of the product has to be interdependent and proprietary in character. Clayton Christensen
character principles easier
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
character television audience
Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. Claire Danes
character productions kidnapped
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
character animal thinking
I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.
character plot
Plot and character are virtually the same thing. Daniel Keys Moran
character giving water
Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character. Daniel J. Boorstin
character men would-be
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
character men illusion
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
character thinking years
I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details. Crystal Chappell
character play ideas
Film is an avenue that I really want to explore more. I’ve learned that my personality is quite impulsive and spontaneous, so the idea that I could play a character for six months and then play something else immediately after is really appealing to me. Crystal Reed
character answers directors
I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.
character writing scare
I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher. Conor McPherson
character thinking practice
No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there. Clint Eastwood