Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role. — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
“No, he was silver and amber, starlings and deep, deep purple skies of the night.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
“How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and,… — Anna Torv Copy Share Image
“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece.… — Joseph Telushkin Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
“Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.” — Jessica Goodman Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Samantha sometimes found Miles absurd and, increasingly, dull. Every now and then, though, she enjoyed his pomposity in precisely the same spirit… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful,… — Andreas Schleicher Copy Share Image
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
THE ABULON DANCE is an intricate and fast-paced novel of political intrigue and clashing alien cultures. The characterizations are rich, detailed, and… — Robin Wayne Bailey Copy Share Image
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“I liked it when things went together like that. Not just timing things like the chop/ flick/ knock-stopping, but space things, too.… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect. — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)
