Character Quotes
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at all costs. So Ariel needs to be me for every project, and if there are any other Ariels floating around out there, it's not necessarily Disney.
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I should just stop trying to control what's coming out of my mouth. I'm always going to keep what's important to me in mind and I completely understand considering that we're playing characters that are so coveted by so many people so I get why they want to know more about us. I just sort of have to not think about it.
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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.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. It is now to be concluded, I hope, with that fine good nature, which is, after all, the distinguishing trait of the American character.
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I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt that creatively I didn't do justice to Richard Gere's character. So in the musical, we have some great new moments for Richard's character.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.
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Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
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The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
