Quotes about character
character sympathetic
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. Donal Logue
character stuff-i-like years
I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.
character thinking social-network
When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool. Dakota Johnson
character heart thinking
It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.
character laughing people
I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
character pride vanity
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie
character thinking interesting
I think television is really incredible because of the fact that you get to sit with a character for so, and the character does something different, every week. I think that's really interesting. Cristin Milioti
character toys collectors
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool. Craig McCracken
character play partners
Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play. Constantin Stanislavski
character events arches
The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.
character unhappy looks
When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.
character play giving
The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.
character together sophie
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the vowel and Sophie the consonant. Psychologists know this phenomenon well. Each individual is harmless, but together they create an explosive chemical reaction. It's like Bonnie and Clyde, like Thelma and Louise. Claude Chabrol
character thinking class
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do. Daniel Radcliffe
character biblical good-things
And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.
character ideas knowing
My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
character acting world
I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.
character people want
I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.
character magic use
Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.
character action
But in action, one defies one's character.
character writing feelings
My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any other medium. I feel like the reader accepts all of these styles, and after a certain point you can flip the pages and see a character rendered very differently than you saw on an earlier page, and it's not jarring. It suggests things that you can't suggest just in the writing or in the plotting. Daniel Clowes
character years people
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.
character littles difficult
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
character people different
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people. Daniel Craig
character past four
I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.
character play headlines
I'm not James Bond. There's your headline! It's very clear to me that he's the furthest from my character that it's possible to be. It's somebody I play.
character night cities
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out. Dan Gilroy
character athlete thinking
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage. Damon Hill
character people stories
No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people. Clive Owen
character jumping things-i-love
One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.
character fighting creating
I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
character ideas people
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
character challenges trying
I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging. Clint Eastwood