Quotes about character
character play people
People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play. David Duchovny
character actors character-actors
William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time David Bradley
character media echoes
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left. David Brock
character writing ideas
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. David Brin
character doe fiction
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.
character people connections
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves. David Brooks
character people important
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
character trying actors
Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do. Ben Whishaw
character opportunity play
I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
character acting things-i-love
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
character looks world
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.
character thinking people
I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you’re always playing a character, aren’t you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it’s a representation of you. It’s not you-you. That’s how you get through it.
character roles vices
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends. Benicio Del Toro
character endure humiliation
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters. Ben Stiller
character dark thinking
I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.
character self who-i-am
I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience. Benedict Cumberbatch
character men people
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate ]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.
character thinking classic
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.
character
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
character strange excited
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.
character able location
Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage. Beau Willimon
character play trying
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible. Beau Bridges
character stories roles
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
character creating way
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role. Beatrice Dalle
character passion cannibal
I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
character want way
Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself. Barret Oliver
character pieces different
At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself. Audrina Patridge
character interesting hollywood
I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies. Audrey Tautou
character simple men
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. August Strindberg
character play piano
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. August Wilson
character taste bad-taste
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. Arnold Bennett
character golf trying
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing. Arnold Palmer
character mean creating
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. Antonio Tabucchi