Quotes About Character

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

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

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.

I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

Mirzapur's female characters are very strong, liberated women. Infact, the boys are leaning on us and we are contributing to the plot in a very strong manner.

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

Those are my favorite kinds of movies, where the plots are quite small and character-driven.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.