Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.
As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of the characters.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.
While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.
I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.
I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.
My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.
And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.
Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.
My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.
I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.
I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.
I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.
Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.
No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.
There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.
I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.