Quotes about character
character phones breathing
When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character. Giancarlo Esposito
character actors chameleon
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
character home addiction
I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It had some painful stuff in it. When we showed it to focus groups, some of them actually said, "If I want to see a dysfunctional family, I'll stay home." Harold Ramis
character names stories
The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is that you have to contribute substantially more than 50 percent of the character dialogue and story.
character vacation serious
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
character interesting stories
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
character winning play
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
character voice ghouls
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact. Griffin Dunne
character feels
When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.
character animal pigs
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. James Dean
character men thinking
I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me. James Cromwell
character actors mouths
I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.
character actors watches
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
character men mirrors
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. James Boswell
character men expression
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.
character men practice
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything....
character unique past
I always feel a bit vulnerable when I begin a new project, especially when I am playing a character with either a troubled past or unique personality. Jake T. Austin
character choices trying
The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments. Jaime Murray
character play television
If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now. Jaimie Alexander
character thinking interesting
I think 'Scarface' is a great film, but if you have a character like Tony Montana, you don't identify with him at all. I think it's very interesting instead to identify yourself with a character you don't like all the time. You can create a tension between the fiction and the viewer. You force the spectator to wonder about his actions. Jacques Audiard
character want different
I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character. Jacquelyn Jablonski
character
There's me in every character I put on the pages. Jacqueline Woodson
character writing thinking
Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're interesting to me, my hope is that they'll be interesting to others as well.
character writing thinking
When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.
character expression speech
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. Jacques Barzun
character small-acts long
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
character play knows
I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am! Jacki Weaver
character play stuff
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
character creating giving
The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers. Jackie Collins
character writing paris
Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
character mean men
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be. James Freeman Clarke
character useless littles
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character. James Gandolfini
character thinking mafia
I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.