Quotes of: Strong-character Keyword

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

Gilbert Hernandez

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

A Fiction Writer's Character Workbook

Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's ...

Jeff Bridges

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.

Swann's Way

If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about...

Tana French

In my opinion, the actors I admire the most are also character actors - the Dustin Hoffmans and the Robert De Niros. You look at them from film to film, and there's clearly more going on than just the repeat of the same persona over and over again. T...

William Sadler

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own...

Joel Coen

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew t...

David Wenham

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, f...

Juliet Marillier

My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between diffe...

Joanna Scott

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over ge...

Michael Koryta

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time I get a new role, I will take a chunk of time to just sit and listen to a bunch of songs and select the ones that make sense in ...

Richard Harmon

A rich man has no need of character.

Hebrew

If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.

Nigerian

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

Czech

No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

Laura Carmichael

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

Vittorio Grigolo

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.

LZ Granderson

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

Louis Jourdan