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The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Midsomer Murders' is more about character and atmosphere. It portrays a kind of idealised rural England, just as the French like to imagine it.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
The most natural thing for us is drawing. The characters [in Persepolis] are hand drawn. We're not technical people. We don't know how to type.
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.
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.
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.
I want a part playing a really ugly geek, with no make-up and my hair all tied back, so I could just be a character without worrying how I look.
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.