Quotes about character
character rude pages
I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page. Colum McCann
character thinking play
Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
character men enough
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. E. V. Lucas
character order survival
I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt. Dwight Yoakam
character pride intelligent
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character. Dwight L. Moody
character dark
Character is what you do in the dark.
character soul lines
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. Colin Hay
character suspicious
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. Alfred Hitchcock
character thinking doctors
I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group. Alfre Woodard
character garden taste
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography. Alfred Austin
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 order talent
Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order. Andrew Jackson
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.