Quotes about character
character learning men
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. Alfred Adler
character hard-times sometimes
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life. Alexia Fast
character writing way
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. Andrew Greeley
character wells early-20s
Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know. Amy Smart
character vagabonds television
The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another. Amy Sherman-Palladino
character
My characters always like themselves. Amy Sedaris
character clown yeah
I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.
character air actors
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
character thinking where-you-are
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. Amy Tan
character eye men
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.
character amish good-times
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma. Amish Tripathi
character men thinking
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr
character thinking people
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
character southern
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized. Anson Mount
character love-is long
I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
character care clear
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
character arbitrary good-and-bad
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
character past chess-pieces
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing. Anthony Burgess
character writing facts
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
character cooking way
The way you make an omelet reveals your character. Anthony Bourdain
character differences rough-patches
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.
character skills taught
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
character laughing relief
Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief. Andy Samberg
character thinking people
People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they're gonna be replaced by performance capture (and) a lot of directors, particularly European directors, who have no experience of it. Andy Serkis
character fate care
No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.
character thinking looks
Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it's just second nature, it just becomes easy.
character space forever
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
character artist self
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz and other films where, where there's a kind of (influential German playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian approach, almost to the character standing outside of himself or, in this case, he's "self-séance-ing."
character player games
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.
character feelings movement
After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.
character emotional breathing
In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
character play voice
Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.
character thinking play
I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'