Character Quotes
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'
Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'
I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason
I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?
When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.
Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.
If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.
Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.
With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.