Quotes about character
character hands wrinkles
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon. Ambrose Bierce
character italian play
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.
character rumor weapons
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
character heart pigs
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
character odd fame
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. Anthony Horowitz
character thinking actors
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. Anthony Hopkins
character creating trying
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. Alison Brie
character thinking flawed
I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.
character independent opportunity
I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of films that may never see the light of day, so it ends up being exclusively about the content, material, the characters and the story. Things that you maybe wouldn't get an opportunity to do otherwise. So, as an actor, obviously it's so different.
character personality kind
I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
character men names
Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named Liz Wallace, so maybe it really should be called the Liz Wallace Test...? Anyway, the test is much simpler than the name. To pass it your movie must have the following: a) there are at least two named female characters, who b) talk to each other about c) something other than a man. Alison Bechdel
character hair giving
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
character long matter
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. Alicia Silverstone
character hair people
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character. Alicia Keys
character narrative sound
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control. Alice Sebold
character voice listening
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature her life isn't much heard. For me, it was resisting all the more appealing characters and listening to the voice that hadn't been much heard from. Alice McDermott
character comedy
'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act. Alice Lowe
character writing cutting
When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character. Alice Hoffman
character giving feelings
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the characters face really helps get the message across. On stage, you cant do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you cant get anywhere else because the audience is right there. Alice Eve
character lines pages
One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't. Anne Lamott
character writing simple
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
character psychology asia
Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist. Dario Argento
character soul littles
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
character
A character is as much about what you do as what you say. Darren Boyd
character passion thinking
I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with Darren Aronofsky
character technique different
Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.
character interesting important
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
character thinking odds
Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically. Danny Boyle
character weekend guy
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. Dabney Coleman
character important pigeons
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
character opposites play
Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. Dakota Fanning
character done able
I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.
character important behavior
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. Dag Hammarskjold