Quotes about character
character play
You have to play your characters, not like them. John Malkovich
character creative advice
It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field. John Lloyd Young
character scripts insight
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
character personality-flaws
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. John Lubbock
character endurance tests
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
character religion treasure
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. John Locke
character army past
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.
character color hue
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
character talking voice
I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk. John Leguizamo
character play hilarity
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.
character eye games
For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character. John Landgraf
character fargo film
There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is.
character essence acting
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character. John Larroquette
character home people
You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies. John Lasseter
character home weekend
I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.
character cartoon today
I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.
character joy parks
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
character stories imagery
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
character ideas inspire
There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.
character memorable successful
You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.
character drawing slow-motion
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
character vicious difficulty
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. John Lancaster Spalding
character female difficulty
I've always had difficulties with female characters. John le Carre
character ideas down-and
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. John Kricfalusi
character tvs liquor
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
character thinking play
I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality. John Barrowman
character writing exercise
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off. John Banville
character trying different
I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
character play want
I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me. Jodelle Ferland
character way dignity
I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it. Jodie Foster
character acting moments
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
character people focus
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
character careers looks
I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.