Character Quote by Joan Didion Download Open image “I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.” — Joan Didion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Clear Ideas Talking
The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
A lot of what you're seeing these characters go through is something that either is a story one of the actors told in the… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking. — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are. — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters. — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
