Quotes about character
character writing oklahoma
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. Tim Blake Nelson
character strange
I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton
character interesting challenges
It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.
character actors wells
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. Thomas Lennon
character thinking stories
I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.
character men may
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience. Thomas Jefferson
character men two-sides
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
character thinking law
I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance. Thomas Beddoes
character kissing actors
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. Thomas Jane
character actors lines
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
character moral
There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters. Thomas Chalmers
character virtue habit
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
character people boring
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. Thomas Bernhard
character men loud
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
character historical events
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Raymond Queneau
character thinking actors
I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. Vin Diesel
character play sound
I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.
character easy
Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.
character thinking shooting
If I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
character writing thinking
The first thing that happens is the cleansing of the former character. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there is usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character played prior to the movie. Then you want to think about what the character represents, and you write down all of the elements about this character and then take the time to find some synchronicity and start breathing the character.
character preparation sometimes
It's very rewarding to see the movie, and it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character [Riddick] is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character.
character actors pockets
When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.
character ideas actors
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
character artist
The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth. Russell Hornsby
character humanity the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.
character might facts
I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's. Russell Hoban
character ugly-duckling ducks
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet. Russell Brand
character careers self
When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
character thinking long
I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really. Rose Leslie
character lovely interpretation
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.
character talking able
Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.
character different actors
I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters. Rose McIver
character actresses
I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity. Rose Byrne