Character Quotes
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That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
Jason Bateman -
As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.
John Sandford
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As far as playing different characters within the character, I think that's fun. Very rarely, on TV, do you get to do that on such a regular basis.
Aldis Hodge -
I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma -
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
Jeff Vandermeer -
I think that people are looking beyond the wig. I think they are saying, This isn't just a costume; there's a person behind this. If this costume, this character, this person has this kind courage? Why don't we share that?
Alyssa Edwards -
If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.
T. Harv Eker -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a certain taste, and that is connected to our aspirations for our brand. We pride ourselves on making character-centric movies. If I had to say what's the most important thing this company does, it's creating characters that stay with the audience long after they leave the theater.
Christopher Meledandri -
When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work and in the words. I think theater allowed me that sort of sharp, quick focus to do that.
Adrienne C. Moore -
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.
William Osler -
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley -
Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
William Emerson Arnett -
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
Flannery O'Connor
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There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.
Jeffrey Tambor -
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt -
I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
William H. Macy -
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James -
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
Rita Mae Brown
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The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.
Carl Gustav Carus -
On or about December 1910, human character changed.
Virginia Woolf -
The problem is there are so many stories out there where I can pull that superhero out, put any other superhero in, and the story works the same. For me, that's broken. I have to write a story that no one else but Aquaman or Shazam can be in, and as soon as you pull that character out and out someone else in, it doesn't work.
Geoff Johns -
Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.
David A. Kolb