Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
Fernando Botero -
The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.
Gabourey Sidibe -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer -
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
Padmasree Warrior -
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
Walton Goggins -
And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
Gary Sinise -
I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
Barbara Hale -
The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.
Kate Brown -
I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
Ted Dekker
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
E. G. Marshall -
I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
Rachel Weisz -
At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.
Karin Slaughter -
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
Naomi Campbell -
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
Colleen Atwood -
I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.
Benny Green -
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
Christopher Lambert -
Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leadersĀ ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.
Warren Farrell -
Don't be afraid to do the most insane thing. Don't think it's too crazy. Just go for it.
Mikey Way My Chemical Romance -
I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge