Quotes of: Lead-character Keyword

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I ...

Georges Simenon

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular ch...

Love

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Eli Roth

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

Jeffrey Jones

The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right.

Compassionate Objectivity - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Nicki Minaj

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.

Rowan Atkinson

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

Shawn Levy

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

Kate Burton

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

Kevin Spacey

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Michael Schur

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

Nathalie Kelley

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

Christian Bale

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

Kevin Whately