Quotes about character
character lines kind
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb. Jeff Bridges
character littles infinity
The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents. Georges Danton
character thinking trying
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step. George Saunders
character order rivers
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
character moments
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
character writing people
I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing. Jenji Kohan
character people waiting
We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.
character thinking flare-up
You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. You've got to show all sides of them. There is definitely an antagonistic relationship between guards and prisoners, and I do think it flares up.
character people trying
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain. Jeffrey Combs
character get-better want
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person. Jeffrey Dean Morgan
character bored stories
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
character hard-work sides
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. Jeffery Deaver
character weak-spots foundation
Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation. Jefferson Davis
character actors aspect
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves. Jeff Perry
character interesting trying
Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
character ideas casting
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.
character names asking-questions
Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it. Jim Goad
character information copies
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one. Jim Henson
character attention faults
It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill. Jerry Reed
character mean people
Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way. Jerry Seinfeld
character horny horns
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
character play numbers
Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them. Jerome Kern
character play voice
I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down. Jenny Slate
character views point-of-view
And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it. Jeffrey Jones
character movement want
Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.
character keys trustworthiness
Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness. Jeffrey Gitomer
character fighting self
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism. Jeffrey Eugenides
character writing way
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
character emotion feels
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
character writing house
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.
character writing acting
There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.
character actors yeah
Yeah, I am a character actor. Jim Gaffigan
character eight guy
After appearing for eight seasons as a beloved character on 'Supernatural,' it's not surprising that I get most of my recognition on the street from that, and it happens with some frequency. But I'm not a guy who gets recognized often. Jim Beaver