Quotes about character
character thinking different
I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different. Keri Russell
character stories intriguing
I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.
character men judging
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Mark Twain
character writing land
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.
character home typewriters
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.
character poor fine
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
character enemy indication
Enemies are an indication of character. Mary Roberts Rinehart
character style towers
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type. Martin Filler
character building-up levers
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. Martin Farquhar Tupper
character views nihilism
In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history. Martin Heidegger
character fighting judging
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing. Marshall Allman
character compassion matter
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
character men sensitive-man
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Marquis de Sade
character long chemistry
You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters. Mark McGrath
character men rights
The lovely thing is, if Marvel had a Spider-Man movie over at Sony or something, they own the rights to the character, and the editors and producers make suggestions and get notes and things. But you're talking about Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. They're two of the best people in the world. The notes are just things like, "This is absolutely brilliant." Mark Millar
character skills results
If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
character ideas people
You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.
character thinking historical
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Mario Vargas Llosa
character roger actresses
I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers. Marilyn Monroe
character people wigs
Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden. Nicki Minaj
character thinking play
No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves. Nick Moran
character priorities habit
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. Nick Saban
character play excited
I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played. Nick Offerman
character unique dreamer
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.
character illinois watches
I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town.
character writing class
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) Nick Hornby
character worry long
I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable. Matt Dillon
character long people
I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.
character scott-fitzgerald world
I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott]Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him, as a writer, when he was at MGM. And, of course, I revisited the novel and the politics of MGM and the studio system at the time and familiarized myself with the world. There was a great deal of physical and literary work that went into it. Matt Bomer
character
What is ultimately motivating the character?
character shadow flaws
I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.
character unique looks
I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story." And I also go, "That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see." For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon? So, to have it out there and judged solely on its own merit is really a unique experience for me.
character years people
For me, a lot of these actors are new. For me, I only worked with Finn [Whittrock] and Michael Chiklis. So a lot of these actors are people I've been a huge fan of for years and are bucket-list actors for me to get to work with. It's pretty surreal now getting to step into scenes with them.You all get to find your characters together.