Quotes about character
character three stories
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. Catherine Hardwicke
character long waiting
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. Catherine Deneuve
character thinking numbers
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
character enough hours
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
character littles rooms
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards. Cary Elwes
character black-and-white approach
No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.
character judging sticky
If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
character play inspire
When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
character writing brain
I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
character way actors
Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
character successful romance
A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that. Cary Fukunaga
character able
You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them Carlton Cuse
character soul answers
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
character writing magic
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
character thinking fiction
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
character game gave loss needed physically
This was a show of our character after the loss to Milan. We needed a game like this. Physically we gave everything. We are very satisfied. David Trezeguet
character good men notion public requires seems service women
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. Elliott Abrams
characters home magazine pages rooms
When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth. Elizabeth Wilson
characters family favorite force members older personal plays watch younger
I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman. Erin Richards
characters keyboard paranoid rough shocked
I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little. Eric Walters
characters fans incredibly people says thrilling
I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is. Elizabeth Mitchell
characters dad dry fed invest jerry kids married mom people program reality shows spell talk type watch weird
People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in. Evangeline Lilly
characters life love relationship tv writers
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate. Carla Gugino
characters films movies whereas
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard. Larry Cohen
characters incredible tennessee williams women
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
character frighten life men woman
If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played. Kim Cattrall
characters evolve love people sorry struggled understand
I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me. Kathryn Harrison
characters good literary might stories
I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving. Joy Fielding
character illustration trying
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly. Jane Austen
character blessing men
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
character thinking people
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
character perception natural
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...
character pride offending
I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?