Quotes about character
characters sort writers
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds. Chelsea Cain
characters lifestyle living
I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person. Debi Mazar
characters driven fear interests pain people
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me. Emory Cohen
characters faith happen reason writes
The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible. Emily Rose
characters companies forgotten people plays shakespeare theater themselves wrote
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that. Eamonn Walker
characters fun process reflects rushing
What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that. Ilana Glazer
character characters happen happy hear leads living love message voices
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction. Isabel Allende
characters lives trying
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. Hill Harper
characters playing
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
characters script stories
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. Tony Scott
character everybody experience explored fantasy game recipe situation sort special success unique whatever
I always think the recipe for success for a game or any sort of a fantasy experience is to think of a character that hasn't really been explored before, who is unique and has special abilities that not everybody has, and plop them into whatever is the most interesting situation to plop them into. Tim Schafer
characters dedicated form inside labeled war work wrote
'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. Tim O'Brien
character definitely draw love point
I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line. Rosario Dawson
characters remain women
Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population. Sharon Lawrence
characters coming fully invent love people scene trying
So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it. Rob Thomas
characters lives loud noticed people quite relief stories
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are. Rachel Joyce
characters dance irritating keeps life main music peripheral reading showing struck time
On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life. Rebecca Pidgeon
character tired im-tired
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. Dana Plato
character flawed best-character
The best characters are always wretchedly flawed Danai Gurira
character air issues
Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs. Dana Spiotta
character writing voice
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.
character past track
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
character want conflict
Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.
character laughing people
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh. Dane Cook
character writing thinking
My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create a character that you think is funny. Some comedians get into bad habits when they are trying to create something that is not them, and they are trying to write a voice that isn't their true voice.
character imagination effort
Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.
character trying information
It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. Dallas Roberts
character creation force
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character. Dallas Willard
character decision may
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
character brain rabbits
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus. Cybill Shepherd
character doe males
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors Curtis Sittenfeld
character thinking self
I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.
character thinking two
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.