Quotes about character
character alive tradition
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. Donna Tartt
character opposites anxious
Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. Donald Hall
character sympathetic
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. Donal Logue
character stuff-i-like years
I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.
character thinking social-network
When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool. Dakota Johnson
character heart thinking
It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.
character laughing people
I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
character pride vanity
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
character thinking interesting
I think television is really incredible because of the fact that you get to sit with a character for so, and the character does something different, every week. I think that's really interesting. Cristin Milioti
character toys collectors
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool. Craig McCracken
character play partners
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play. Constantin Stanislavski
character events arches
The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.
character unhappy looks
When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.
character play giving
The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.
character together sophie
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise. Claude Chabrol
character hands years
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands Ani Difranco
character writing down-and
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. Amy Poehler
character thinking play
I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".
character challenges faces
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things. Ally Carter
character play tree
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts. Alla Nazimova
character play years
I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer Alison Lohman
character
I like to take a character and develop it
character actors lost
I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part. Alison Elliott
character ideas stuff
I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory. Alison Pill
character writing comedy
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. Ann Brashares
character writing age
Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
character age fleeting-time
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
character littles conservative
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays. Ann Coulter
character thinking people
I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms. Andy Garcia
character men unjust-criticism
Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing. Andy Andrews
character eye memorable
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships. Andrea Barrett
character personality feminist
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. Andrea Dworkin
character america suffering
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much. Andrea Bocelli