Quotes about character
character opposites suffering-and-death
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
character lines looks
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. Andrew Davies
character leather-jackets jeans
Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain way. The wardrobe is really important to feeling the character you're playing. Andrew Dice Clay
character wrath quality
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . . Ambrose Bierce
character dignity ridicule
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.
character judging records
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
character italian play
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.
character hands wrinkles
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
character italian play
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
character rumor weapons
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
character heart pigs
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
character odd fame
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. Anthony Horowitz
character thinking actors
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. Anthony Hopkins
character creating trying
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. Alison Brie
character thinking flawed
I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.
character independent opportunity
I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.
character personality kind
I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
character men names
Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man. Alison Bechdel
character hair giving
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
character long matter
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. Alicia Silverstone
character hair people
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character. Alicia Keys
character narrative sound
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. Alice Sebold
character voice listening
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature her life isn't much heard. For me, it was resisting all the more appealing characters and listening to the voice that hadn't been much heard from. Alice McDermott
character comedy
'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act. Alice Lowe
character writing cutting
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character. Alice Hoffman
character giving feelings
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the characters face really helps get the message across. On stage, you cant do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you cant get anywhere else because the audience is right there. Alice Eve
character lines pages
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Anne Lamott
character writing simple
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
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.
character preparation way
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can. Ana Gasteyer
character writing years
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. Amy Waldman
character trying layers
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
character greatness leader
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans. Alphonse de Lamartine