Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
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.
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.
No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.
She built her character with the adversity she had faced, so she could live the best of her life for the rest of life.
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
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 had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
