Quotes about character
character play way
There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot. Curtis Armstrong
character looks actors
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.
character boys important
Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading. Curtis Hanson
character boys special
I thought, "If I could bring these characters [Wonder Boys] to life and lead the audience to react the same way I did, this could be a really special picture." Then I read Michael's [Chabon] novel and got even more enthusiastic about it.
character boys wonder
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.
character thinking reason
From my point of view, when I was thinking about the prospect of [Michael Douglas] in this part, I wondered if he would go all the way with it. The reason I was concerned is that, oftentimes, actors - especially movie stars - when they're playing a character who might be perceived as unattractive or eccentric, will wink at the audience while they're doing it.
character gay men
Movie stars exaggerate certain things to let the audience know they're just playing a character, as if they're saying, "Look at me, I'm not really an old man, I'm just playing one." Or "I'm not really a homosexual, I'm just playing a gay character. Or an alcoholic. Or somebody who's mentally impaired." They often do it very successfully and win awards for it.
character interest
I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.
character thinking role-models
What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things." Curtis Jackson
character thinking role-models
I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.
character play creating
I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor. Acting is creating a character. Corey Stoll
character drunk trying
It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.
character creative lines
I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first. Corey Feldman
character creating way
I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters. Corin Nemec
character
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
character personality trying
I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?
character men moral
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. Confucius
character mean motive
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
characteristics ifs
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
character men practice
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.
character culture backbone
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
character men pay
A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
character men partisans
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
character men chinese
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
character america world
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind. Daniel Webster
character tired im-tired
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. Dana Plato
character flawed best-character
The best characters are always wretchedly flawed Danai Gurira
character air issues
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs. Dana Spiotta
character writing voice
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.
character past track
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
character want conflict
Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.
character laughing people
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh. Dane Cook
character writing thinking
My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.