Characterization Quotes

Characterization Quote of the day

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing we're born with, it's something that comes about.

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?