William G. Tapply Quotes
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
William G. Tapply
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
Aaron Sorkin
-
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
E. Stanley Jones
-
When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
Daniel Clowes
-
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
Sam Shepard
-
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
Abraham Pais
-
Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
Forest Whitaker
-
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
Val McDermid
-
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
Bernardo Bertolucci
-
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
James Mill
-
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
Crystal Lowe
-
I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.
Jeph Loeb
-
If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.
James Patterson
-
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
Jack Roy
-
People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.
Mark Ruffalo
-
I watch a movie or a T.V. show or whatever; if it's good, I like to watch it more than once, and it's always fun to catch something you didn't see initially.
Judah Friedlander
-
When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.
Dennis Banks
-
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
Kirk Hammett
Metallica
-
Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.
William G. Tapply
