Quotes about character
character people personality
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. Edward Albee
character kids mind
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.
character environment thesis
True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
character writing play
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.
character play two
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
character unconscious
I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.
character thinking people
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people. Edie Falco
character voice different
That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors. Eddie George
character insight
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had. Eckhart Tolle
character
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
character complete initially mask written
The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered. Rene Auberjonois
characters known lived man people talk
The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job. Lucinda Williams
character fill finding fit mandate miracles question shoes tough
The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, and finding someone to fit the character of Jeffrey was a challenge, if not a miracle. But when miracles happen, you don't question them. Jason Alexander
characters
I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. Janina Gavankar
character play people
I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people. Holland Taylor
character people fearless
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid. Hermann Hesse
character men tests
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Henry Taylor
character men sailing
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. Henry Van Dyke
character writing easy
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
character perfection simplicity
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
character personality literature
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
character paper sitting
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. Henrik Ibsen
character writing wrinkles
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
character order risk
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability. Henri Matisse
character artist expression
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.
character young claws
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
character safety shy
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character. Hayley Mills
character space broken
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this is 1,000 pieces of gold gilded wooden sculpture. In terms of design, it's up to the space's character. Hiroshi Sugimoto
character people photographer
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.
character men age
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Hesketh Pearson
character adversity have-a-great-day
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. Henry Ford
character self play
Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering." Helen Mirren
character thinking forget-everything
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.