Quotes about character
characters full opportunity rap
I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character. Nicki Minaj
characters wide
I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression. Joel Kinnaman
characters cunning enigmatic good hard hope job okay people pin played tricky
I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds. Aidan Gillen
character consider enviable firmness honest hope maintain possess shall virtue
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. George Washington
characters gets invent power
I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen. Ruth Glick
characters human love playing raw scary scripts vulnerable
I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary. Shailene Woodley
character cliches cultural defied delivering exporting liked rest somewhat
I really liked the idea of delivering an American character who defied some of the cultural cliches we have been exporting to the rest of the world. A character who was awkward, vulnerable, young, innocent, neurotic, somewhat alien, Liev Schreiber
characters difference jump kinda maybe nice prefer tv
I prefer movies. I think it's nice to go to difference characters and kinda jump around. Maybe one day I'll do a TV show again. O. J. Simpson
character great harsh house lead path pays pledge refrain walking words
I pledge to ... refrain from name-calling or the questioning of character. Harsh words often lead to headlines, but walking this path is not a victimless crime. This great House pays the price. Jean Schmidt
character great harsh house lead path pays pledge refrain walking words
I pledge to ... refrain from name-calling or the questioning of character, ... Harsh words often lead to headlines, but walking this path is not a victimless crime. This great House pays the price.
characters evolving life lived older scripts
I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey. Matt Barr
character loved meanness message palmer
I didn't think Palmer should have been killed at all. I didn't like the message that it sent. There is too much meanness in the world - why kill off a character that is so loved by everybody? Dennis Haysbert
characters enjoyable jump paradoxes time
I didn't find any temporal paradoxes that I couldn't handle, ... It's a very enjoyable thing to do, to jump time and play around with characters you've already established.
character individuality way
I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel. Jack Kirby
character elements
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
character people having-hope
I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
character tired together-again
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath. J. D. Salinger
character greek theatre
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre Isabelle Huppert
character tragedy abnormal
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal
character firsts normal
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal Irwin Shaw
character cutting voice
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
character emotional thinking
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. Ira Glass
character trying mets
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had. Illeana Douglas
character interesting roles
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? Imelda Staunton
characters emotional happens reality reasons relationships
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens. Graeme Murphy
characters followed
because there are a lot of characters that aren't followed through. Nick Nolte
character play trying
I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them. Harrison Ford
character opportunity luck
I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
character age growing
There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.
character years interesting
I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
character opportunity fiction
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].
character cutting cowboy
American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
character opportunity thinking
There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.