Quotes about character
character thinking play
I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively. Jared Harris
character reason bits
I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly. Jarvis Cocker
character being-in-love knowing
I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him. Janel Moloney
character emotional looks
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this. Janet Fitch
character unity goes-on
What is a scene? a) A scene starts and ends in one place at one time (the Aristotelian unities of time and place-this stuff goes waaaayyyy back). b) A scene starts in one place emotionally and ends in another place emotionally. Starts angry, ends embarrassed. Starts lovestruck, ends disgusted. c) Something happens in a scene, whereby the character cannot go back to the way things were before. Make sure to finish a scene before you go on to the next. Make something happen.
character thinking stories
I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character. Paul Rudd
character giving trying
You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing. Paul Greengrass
character wanted
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow. Paul Haggis
character giving judging
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
character writing men
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.
character worst asks
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
character writing mind
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them. Paul Auster
character names reason
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
character talking environment
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
character intelligent thinking
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation....
character thinking projects
I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.
character funny-things feels
The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
character romance strange
The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it. Patrick Macnee
character play always-trying
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it. Patrick Marber
character play answers
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
character thinking anxiety
I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves. Pam Grier
character yellow rights
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
character play want
It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not. Juno Temple
character two clothes
There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about.
character thinking questioning-why
I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.
character body care
For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
character together want
I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.
character play giving
Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance. Julia Ormond
character home want
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself. Julia Roberts
character writing too-much
For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much! Julia Quinn
character talking what-if
If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited? Judd Hirsch
character thinking editing
Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end. Judd Apatow
character people care
People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.