Character Quotes
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I think back to last year and, I don't want to say it was easy, but we made it look easy. We weren't challenged in difficult situations. This year, we have been, and it's built our character.
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Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.
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I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
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What a testing of character adversity is.
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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
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Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the people you send.
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There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.
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I've been talking about the character of these guys for quite awhile and I think you saw it tonight. It is something we can and will build on.
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I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.
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Actually, they Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
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George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
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Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.
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Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.
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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.
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The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character seen in the habits of social animals and the less necessary are master builders; the more novel actions are, the more necessary are master builders. Dislike of the leader and the promoter, though linked emotionally to progressivism, is linked logically to total conservatism. Conversely, an authoritarian approach, natural enough in the instigator of new activities, is unjustified in the mere overseer of routines.
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Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.
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I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
