Quotes About Personification

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met.

I can do a good John Wayne.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

Everyone has this vision of Jones as a maniacal ogre. Wrong. He was charming, sweet, and a fabulous speaker.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

This is Buford," Leo announced. "You name your furniture?" Frank asked.

The thing about talking swords…it's hard to tell when they're kidding. They have no facial expressions. Or faces.

It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.

My hope is that I can characterize something with enough emphasis that it is very different from myself, the actor. If

She thanked the toilet, but it did not respond. That was good—if she started to think of it as a sentient being, it would probably be much harder to poop in its mouth.

You know you are a writer when you talk about your characters as if they were real people!

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Pôs um sorriso que uma faca poderia exibir se por acaso ganhasse vida.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

Por qué personificamos al Tiempo? ¿Será porque tenemos que admitir que nuestras vidas están medidas por una fuerza abstracta, que ignora y tampoco le importa nada de lo referente a nuestra entrada en la existencia y nuestra partida en la muerte? El tiempo era algo misterioso; y, al darle un rostro y unas manos, intentamos convertirlo en nuestro servidor.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.

I've named everything that I've ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.