Quotes about character
character play want
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event. Edward Albee
character reality everyday
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
character thinking action
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.
character people personality
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
character environment thesis
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
character writing play
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.
character play two
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
character unconscious
I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.
character thinking people
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people. Edie Falco
character voice different
That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors. Eddie George
character insight
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had. Eckhart Tolle
character
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
character complete initially mask written
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. Rene Auberjonois
characters known lived man people talk
The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job. Lucinda Williams
character fill finding fit mandate miracles question shoes tough
The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, and finding someone to fit the character of Jeffrey was a challenge, if not a miracle. But when miracles happen, you don't question them. Jason Alexander
characters
I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. Janina Gavankar
character play people
I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. Holland Taylor
character people fearless
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid. Hermann Hesse
character men tests
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Henry Taylor
character men sailing
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. Henry Van Dyke
character men vanity
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it. Joseph Addison
character thinking feelings
I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work. Jose Saramago
character sound needs
A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character. Jose Padilha
character men equilibrium
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. Jose Marti
character female sometimes
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones. Jorge Amado
character writing cutting
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing. Jorge Luis Borges
character fool tricks
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
character trying stories
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do. Jonny Lee Miller
character want opinion
When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.
character suffering christ
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us. Joni Eareckson Tada
character commitment discipline
God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.
character writing phones
Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.
character writing pieces
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing. Jonathan Tropper