Quotes About Characters

Strong characters of their sort tend to gravitate together. Pride has a part to play in it, and other emotions too. Neither wishes to fail; each redoubles their effort to impress. Things get done - but not always the right things or not always the things expected. and there's not much you can do to stop it.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

The Grand Master had two anvils – a standard farrier's type for dropping on cartoon characters, and a broader-topped one with no horn that she was currently using.

books also connect us to all others - of our own or previous times - who have read what we've read. In the community of readers, we instantly become linked to those who share our love for specific characters or passages.

The plan was born in the mind of a novelist and took shape through a most unlikely cast of characters: a brilliant barrister, a family of undertakers, a forensic pathologist, a gold prospector, an inventor, a submarine captain, a transvestite English spymaster, a rally driver, a pretty secretary, a credulous Nazi, and a grumpy admiral who loved fly-fishing.

The Hays Code stated: "When right standards are consistently presented, the motion picture exercises the most powerful influences. It builds character, develops right ideals, inculcates correct principles, and all this in attractive story form. If motion pictures consistently hold up for admiration high types of characters and present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind.

This is the Hollywood argument same-sex marriage: you like certain characters, so if you don't like their behavior, it's because you're mean and nasty. This is what Hollywood does best.

Tenements were a screenwriter's dream—lively, interesting places that lent themselves to narrative.

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

Yes," said Lady St Julians. "I think those men who breakfast out or who give breakfasts are generally dangerous characters; at least, I would not trust them.

The more characters you have, the bigger the book, the more flaming chain saws.

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.

I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.

Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

In my journey, I got amazing characters to play which were as interesting as a lead role. In 'Commando,' my role was so good. I feel no actor have rejected that kind of a role.

I have few other characters to relate to other than myself. I have enough of a body of work now that the paternal side of Alan Thicke gets a lot of play. I do get a lot of calls to play dads.