Quotes about character
character bizarre
To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it, James Marsden
character ridiculous sincerity
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
character years ideas
The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore. James Mangold
character law division-of-labor
At this point, an urgent question arises: ... Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree? Emile Durkheim
character names historical
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
character auditions scene
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out. Elmore Leonard
character writing thinking
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different. You might think you're writing for yourself, but there are too many other people to please.
character writing verbs
The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.
character play judging
You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them. Ellen Pompeo
character hair mcdreamy
Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.
character interesting female
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
character gay people
I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and it's because it's what I'm interested in. I'm not going to read a script and say, 'They're not gay, I'm not going to do it,' but I am interested in playing more gay people, because I've only played one gay person, and I've done a fair amount of movies, and I am interested in those stories. So for me, there's no should-I-or-shouldn't-I. It all feels natural. Ellen Page
character thinking people
I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.
character journey perfect
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. Ella Maillart
character continued democracy great opinion since speech true
The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the character of our democracy as of speech itself. William Douglas
character election influence violations
The detected violations were of procedural character and do not influence the election results.
characters diary original seeing
Am I seeing the characters of the original diary or the characters from the film? Helen Fielding
characters good none soft
All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy. Andrea Roth
character common face kids seen thread town wearing
All these kids were around wearing face paint. The common thread is character and heart. It comes from the town. They've seen other kids do it and know what it takes. It's a very close-knit town and community.
characters hopeful inside kept secrets trust
All these characters have layers, secrets inside of them. It was difficult, but the thing that kept me hopeful was my trust in the producers. Daniel Kim
character confront deal force forcing great issues lives motivate people sorts source taking works
All sorts of different things motivate people to do things - and from a storytelling standpoint, if you can take a character that's grappling with issues in their lives and sort of force them to deal with them, that's a great source of drama. For me, that's why it works so well. It's because you're taking a character and forcing them to confront things in their life. And I think that's a great inspiration for a story.
character coaches deal expected great hear season shown shows team work
All season you hear the doubters, you know what's expected of you. You work through it. This team has shown a great deal of resilience. It shows the character of this team the coaches and the players.
character animal psychology
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. Edward Thorndike
character lasts study
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character
character men animal
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
character actors honest
Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest. Edward Burns
character smell sage
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. Edward Dahlberg
character writing reality
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play is a great deal more alive for me than what passes for reality. I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. The involvement is terribly intense. Edward Albee
character thinking play
There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.
character boys thinking
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
character play want
I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.
character reality everyday
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
character thinking action
A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.