Top 1200 Character Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

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

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

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

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you're optimizing.

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

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

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.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

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

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.

I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should be a central character and it should make an impact.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

In 'Kalank,' I am playing a character, which is quite strong, quiet a little complex yet interesting, that drew me towards the character when I heard the narration from director Abhishek Varman.

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.

Usually viewers are attached to a character or that character's personality. But, in my case, I have been exceptionally lucky as I have been accepted as Shweta.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

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