Quotes about character
character personality quality
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. W. Somerset Maugham
character personality culture
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
character yield harmony
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
character enough knows
You can never know enough about your characters
character writing giving
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
character names common-sense
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
character writing heart
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
character men rivers
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
character blood two
I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout. Wynton Marsalis
character mean thinking
Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad. Willow Shields
character thinking people
I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way. William Petersen
character people likes
Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.
character men giving
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit. William Makepeace Thackeray
character boomerang malice
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
character eye men
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
character stories fables
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
character mean safe
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
character men abuse
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
character anxiety firsts
Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
character winning people
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence. Zig Ziglar
character writing looks
What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him. Thomas Perry
character common good-person
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
character voice three
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.
character bad-movies i-can
I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be. Robert McKee
character writing voice
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.
character ideas acting
I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor was about playing different characters and being a chameleon. That's why I was in the theater. Robert Knepper
character realization different
I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap. Robert Kirkman
character mind arcs
I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
character zombie world
To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.
character hard-times want
We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with.
character people looks
In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that. Robert Greenblatt
character ideas people
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible. Robert Harris
character self creative
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. Robert Greene