After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be… — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character. — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Style has become a crucial differentiating factor for most actors in the industry. I generally choose my look based on the character… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I personally am happy doing a finite series as I can't play a single character for three years. Hats off to the… — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the… — Danny Pudi Copy Share Image
It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy… — Jonathan Coulton Copy Share Image
I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“It may be that in his rogues the writer gratifies instincts deep-rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter… — Adam Croasdell Copy Share Image
Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters). — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
“You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves… — John Morley Copy Share Image
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Some people might shy away from a character like Deathstroke because, you know, all of the blood-letting and the swordplay and violence… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing… — Arne Næss Copy Share Image
The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something… — Dwight V. Swain Copy Share Image
I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast,… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see.… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
People like to see Ravi Teja as a vibrant, massy character. We needed to do something more. So I gave him the… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I always at least try to come from some sort of human place no matter how ridiculous the character is. That's really… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Character is key. Once you've got that voice going, everything else can follow. If you've also got the right tone, you're in… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Heroism isn’t some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it’s a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
