Quotes about character
character play challenges
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge. Giancarlo Esposito
character acting reactions
When you have great acting partners, you hope that your reaction to them is propels you deeper into your own 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.
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 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. Griffin Dunne
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 support democracy
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. Helen Keller
character thinking notes
I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made. Cate Blanchett
character journey thinking
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.
character two imagination
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.
character thinking way
I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
character ugly emotion
I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.
character mean makeup
I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean! I've never been that conventional. I suppose maybe it means that my face can look different in different lights, so I just try and sort of keep it simple when I'm going out, to still look like me.
character thinking who-we-are
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
characters immerse
I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen. Ann Aguirre
character flawed forget good john
I'm a flawed character. I'm good at that. ... I'm your man. If you want John Wayne, forget it. Ricky Gervais
character play wonderful
Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time. Jude Law
character different compare
You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.
character tv-shows tvs
Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show. Josh Charles
character reality political
W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film. Josh Brolin
character style letters
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. Joseph Joubert
character hypocrite men
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
character men veils
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds the world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make Himself visible, - I say, if you were to see Him today, you would see Him like a man in form - like yourself in all the person, image, and very form as a man. Joseph Smith, Jr.
character perspective people
I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience. Kristin Kreuk
characters colorful gods hang image japan japanese side stand temple
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.
character deserve gone
For their record, they deserve to be in there, but their character has gone down. Andy Pafko
characters cups head
If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.
character memorable self
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music. Steven Morrissey