Characters Quotes

• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Success
  • Understand
  • Response

• Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said—​that life wasn’t all nice and neat like a book, and life didn’t have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn’t right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn’t I be like him?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Real
  • Book
  • Beautiful Things

• I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • I Love
  • Lifestyle
  • My Family

• I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Place
  • Characters
  • Deserved

• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Creation
  • Human Power

• I found out that I am a DC fan. I thought I was a Marvel fan because I didn't know. I found out that all of my favorite heroes and villains are DC characters, and I get to play one.

  

  Casper Crump
  • Play
  • Fan
  • Heroes

• The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Reading
  • Director
  • Meetings

• Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Sometimes
  • Television
  • Honey

• I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

  

  David Grossman
  • Reality
  • Imagine
  • Maybe

• I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Job
  • Write
  • Horror

• I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

  

  Ivan Reitman
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Warmth

• The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Telling

• I just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Myself
  • Characters
  • Put

• Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Respect
  • Comedy
  • Integrity

• Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

  

  George Parsons Lathrop
  • Nature
  • Connection
  • Meaning

• At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Audience
  • Characters
  • Stand-up comedy

• A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Never
  • Which
  • Specific

• I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Different genres

• Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Friends
  • Characters
  • Minorities

• Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

  

  Virginie Fernandez
  • Play
  • Characters
  • Realistic

• Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Responsibility
  • Existence
  • Characters

• I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Directors
  • Credit
  • Concept

• Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

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