Quotes about character
character consumed
I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me. Irrfan Khan
character roles way
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
character political trainspotting
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. Irvine Welsh
character passion thinking
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. Iris Murdoch
character men doe
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.
character thinking psychology
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it. Imogen Poots
character opportunity amazing-opportunities
I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
character heart singers
I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart. Idina Menzel
character men cities
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival, Ida B. Wells
character standards consumerism
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. Ida Tarbell
character mean men
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that. Idris Elba
character men thinking
The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.
character apology play
When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
character men play
There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
character way directors
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.
character fearful
I would never be fearful of any character.
character imagination dumb
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
character done film
Every single film I've done, it's about the character.
character different week
One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are different directors coming in and different crews, you just lived in your character. It's the nature of the story, the ongoing story, and it can get deeper and deeper.
character way problem
The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early. Hunter Tylo
character thinking pay
If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
character roots dying
Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character. Gregory Maguire
character people brave
At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables you to dig deeper into different characters. You'll get to a point where you can say: 'I can relate to that', 'I know that', 'I don't have to make that up' and that resonates with people in the audience who can tell that you've been there. Glynn Turman
character goal overcoming
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal. James Frey
character intolerance wells
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. J. William Fulbright
character giving reason-why
As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak. Isaac Bashevis Singer
character logic
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
character names gossip
It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
character entertainment analysis
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
character experts fingerprints
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
character always-believe
I always believed in my characters. I lived them Irene Dunne
character found existence
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence. Immanuel Kant
character thinking intuition
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.