Best aspect & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'ooh it's old hat' and 'too risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”

People Thinking Wells Said Character Aspect Agents Narrative Hats Expenses Disagree Auditions Thrillers Monologues Christie Showcase

Author:Thomas Howes

“Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.”

Book Character Lasts Novel Changed Aspect Eternity Recognition Comic Comic Book Merchandising Book Characters Comic Book Characters

Author:Grant Morrison

“The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.”

People Character My Own Known Personality Degrees Aspect Combination Dirty Dragons Chicago Good Friend Puppets Indianapolis My Own Personality

Author:William Jackson

“With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.”

“If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.”

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Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.”

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Author:Nora Roberts

“The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.”

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Author:Will Smith

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”

People Character Mets Pure Aspect Various Invention Mixtures

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.”

World Character Home Dream Gone Loneliness Adventure Return Normal Aspect Longing Probability Occasional Vikings Homesickness

Author:Agatha Christie

“Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.”

Important Character Design Development Aspect Helpful Costumes Character Development Figuring It

Author:Katherine Waterston

“There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.”

Character Humor Elements Aspect Surprise Related American Character

Author:Constance Rourke

“It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.”

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Author:Carson Grant

“Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.”

Feels Character Actors Aspect Minors

Author:Jeff Perry

“To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.”

Trying Persons Real Character Interest Aspect Favourite Combining Real Person Fictional Character

Author:Caroline Lawrence

“The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.”

Men Littles Whole Character Hands Might House Church Interesting Aspect Collections Old Man Worn Spoil Tombs Deserted Interesting Characters Haggard Old Churches

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop

“I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.”

“An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.”

Way Trying Firsts Believe Persons Character Girl Reading Lines Situation First Time Aspect Starting Actresses Suits Settling Teens Verge Rehearsing

Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart. The characters anyway, they do represent different aspects of all of us - and put them all together, you get a human being. And so it's got a wonderful purity, a real purity that's so moving, exiting, everything.”

People Humans Heart Different Real Character Together Moving Human Beings Wonderful Aspect Defense Purity Animation

Author:Timothy Dalton

“Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your character comes from, how can you know what he's really like? You must know your characters on a much deeper level than you would if you just shrugged your way into a cookie cutter fantasy world.”

Ifs Knows World Way Wells Character Stories Culture Levels Fantasy Like You Aspect Deeper Plot Cookies Fantasy Worlds Cutters Really Like You Cookie Cutters

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.”

Character Personality Aspect Dresses

Author:Terry Pratchett

“While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.”

Character Female Aspect Relate Female Characters

Author:Chika Anadu

“If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the actor who's very focused on the narrative, where my character is in the story, and how I can benefit the story. I've always had a technical aspect of what the lens is, how the camera is going to move, how I can feed the information the director applies within that move. If you're that type of actor, narrative-based, technically proficient, the next step is actually not that far.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find themselves gravitating towards the emotional dilemma that the characters find themselves in. Other people will see that there is some layer of subversions to the storytelling aspect of poking a finger of judgment at certain governments to the idea of foreign invasion, others maybe false pretenses.”

People Want Two Ideas Character Government Action Certain Enjoy Hours Audience Emotional Judgment Aspect Fingers Storytelling Hopefully Layers Invasion Dilemma Pretense Subversion

Author:Colin Farrell

“I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.”

Thinking World Important Character Science Artist Fiction Fantasy Aspect Science Fiction Visuals

Author:Margaret Weis

“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.”

Important Character Novel Crime Emotional Circumstances Offers Aspect Tradition Function Atmosphere Personal Life Detectives Countryside Tapestry Tapestry Of Life English Countryside

Author:Elizabeth George

“I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.”

People Ifs Way Feels I Can Real Play Whole Character Aspect Fake

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.”

Thinking Feels Looks Real Character Stories Moving Sound Building Scene Aspect Theater Originals Architecture Senses Dialogue Distinctive Always Thinking Playwriting

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself.”

Mean Important Different Character Would Be Age Certain Fun Aspect Different Things

Author:David Duchovny

“It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.”

People Men Kind Littles Character Seems Guy Enjoy Aspect Complexes Rage Syndromes Little Man Impudence Napoleon Complex

Author:David Kirschner

“Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.”

Play Character Stories Running Chance Aspect Complicated Nuance Protagonists

Author:Ben Affleck

“Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.”

Humans Character Existence Aspect Human Existence Allegory

Author:Vanna Bonta

“It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see.”

Trying Character One Thing Aspect Compromise Smoke Traits Character Trait

Author:Neil Marshall

“I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's Judy Garland or Norma Desmond, there is this tragic quality to older women that one can revel in, and you want it to be more three-dimensional than that. So it was important for the character to be strong and resilient, because there are so many victims in opera.”

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Author:Rufus Wainwright

“A person who suffers from a character disorder frequently has significant behavioral or emotional problems that will almost certainly spell disaster for any marital relationships. One of the most difficult aspects of identifying people with character disorders is that they tend to be unusually charming. People with these kinds of disorders tend to lie, cheat, exaggerate, and take advantage of others.”

People Kind Persons Character Problem Lying Suffering Difficult Emotional Advantage Aspect Disaster Significant Spells Disorder Charming Cheat Identifying Emotional Problems

Author:Neil Clark Warren

“To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star. I am aware that Arnold is loved by the American audience, but rather than focusing on working with Arnold, what I focused on was expressing the character, Sheriff Owens, through Arnold the actor and knowing that Arnold and my idea about Sheriff Owens coincided and that it was about Owens protecting a certain value and justice, I focused more on that aspect that helped me to be more comfortable in working with Arnold.”

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Author:Kim Jee-woon

“If you look at Cinderhella, from a production design aspect, I tried to find an interesting, iconic character, having her face wrapped up in bandages. That was funny. On the dream logic level, you'll see the parallels of that interesting connection that I made. There's a reason why she's called Cinderhella.”

Ifs Looks Made Reason Character Dream Faces Interesting Levels Design Aspect Connections Logic Productions Reason Why Parallels Iconic Bandages Production Design

Author:Joseph M. Kahn

“I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.”

Character Facts Age Truth Is Aspect Myth Revealing Transparency Icons Stripping Wikileaks

Author:Joseph Fiennes

“I like the idea of having a film that is choreographic in all its aspects, not only in the dancing scenes, but also in the way the camera and the characters move in order to have that feeling that it's always musical.”

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Author:Pascal Chaumeil

“We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.”

“Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'”

Ifs World Character Stories Jobs Actors Views Acting Teacher Personality Aspect Instruments Access Range Great Actors Effortless World View Vantage Point Acting Teachers

Author:Jack Lemmon

“When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.”

Book Character Lost Language Unique Aspect Translations Lost In Translation

Author:Etgar Keret

“In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.”

People Way Kind Character Aspect Extremes Typical

Author:Fred Melamed

“In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.”

Humans Reason Character Bits My Own Sorrow Aspect Universal Irony Absurdity Human Experience Vulgarity Silliness Work Humor

Author:Anthony Marra

“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Trying Book Different Reason Play Character Men And Women Aspect And Love Difficulty Scripts Different Ways Different Peoples Relatable Heroines

Author:Lily James

“Despite the fact that wanted to voice aclassic character, a majority of my day-to-day is not Porky Pig. It's commercials and original characters, promos and other aspects of the business. Porky's just kind of high-profile.”

Kind Character Facts Wanted Voice Aspect Originals Majority Despite Pigs Day To Day Profile High Profile

Author:Bob Bergen

“I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.”

Knows Writing Ideas Real Character Aspect Real Life

Author:S. E. Hinton

“I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.”

Thinking Play Character Would Be Aspect Boring

Author:Felicity Jones

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