Quotes about character
character men mad
I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men. Christina Hendricks
character men years
I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's a criticism to anyone, but just simply as a character for nine years, you're going to get a lot of the same questions for many, many, many years. This is sort of refreshing.
character play waiting
I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait.
character writing years
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years. Christina Ricci
character thinking long
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
character thinking ashamed
I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.
character clothes red-lipstick
The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world. Christina Aguilera
character red-lipstick singing
For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
character cat army
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations. Christian Carion
character men shoes
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. Christian Louboutin
character shoes grace
Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
character talking people
As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave. Chris Noth
character men circles
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. Geoffrey Rush
character way treatment
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
character emotional depth
You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into. Gary Ross
character giving intuition
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. Gary Oldman
character play years
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
character clothes important
And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.
character play cry
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
character silence loud
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
character color sock
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
character people thumbs
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. Gabriel Byrne
character years voice
Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because when I started I was just doing characters and impressions and that was it. Gabriel Iglesias
character sides enough
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? Francoise Sagan
character writing finding-the-one
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
character self-confidence years
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse. Christoph Waltz
character play mind
The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life Christian Slater
character followers literature
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
character giving events
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
character men expression
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
character giving proud
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
character trying use
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.
character chinese imitation
No single character is ever so great that a nation can afford to form itself upon it. Imitation belittles. This appears in the instance of the Chinese. The Chinese are so many Confucii; in miniature. And so with the Jews. Moses, the lawgiver, is poorly represented by Moses, the old clothesman ; or even by Dives, the hanker.