Quotes about character
character important done
Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character. Ana Ortiz
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
character doe ridiculous
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous. Aesop
characters drawn good
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people. Rachel Weisz
character watches action
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. A. A. Milne
characters everyday fact mold opportunity producers writers
The fact that the writers and producers have give us the opportunity to mold these characters into something that is not everyday has been a pleasure. Matthew Ashford
character fact pain proves speaks true
The fact that he was in pain and still wanted to play speaks for his character and proves he's a true leader.
character habit
Habits change into character. Ovid
characters fascinated femininity ideas map men needs positions powerful road situation society successful supposed tried woman women
What I tried to do with the characters is put them in the same situation that powerful and successful men often find themselves, ... I'm fascinated by what it's like to be a woman in one of those powerful positions because there is really no road map about how you're supposed to behave. Just as society needs to re-evaluate our ideas about femininity and what women can do, we as women need to re-evaluate our ideas about it too. Candace Bushnell
character cruel giving gone management test trying year
What we've gone through is one of life's most cruel tests, a test of character and will and perseverance. This year has been very trying for us as players. I know it's been trying for everyone else, management and fans, especially. We're not giving up. Malik Rose
character characters classic disney floating integrity maintain needs voices
What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney. Jodi Benson
character hands people
I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions. Alexander Payne
character people mixtures
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. Alexander McCall Smith
character people want
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
character needs fiction
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
character ideas dialogue
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
character organization president
The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization. A. J. Liebling
character idols developing
Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing Aamir Khan
character prefer
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. Rick Allen
characters classic eating escape food good hiding main might people relationships sugar three
I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches. Sarah Addison Allen
characters enter
I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
character shoes judging
When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know? Abbie Cornish
character reality mind
I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality. Abbas Kiarostami
character men thinking
In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point with Shirin - the way men see women in the film, and the way these two characters see each other.
character mean thinking
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse. Agatha Christie
character men feet
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.
character everyday individuality
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
character writing small-objects
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character. Adriana Trigiani
character habit harvest
Your character is the harvest of your habits. Adrian Rogers
character division-of-labor differences
The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. Adam Smith