“It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.” ThinkingKnowsShouldFirstsDoeCharacterLostRolesHealthyWeightExtremesTiesPhysicality Author:Brandon Lee
“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.” MenWantNeedsGivingFeelsShouldFirstsChildrenCharacterThreeParentSoundViewsMoralChristianityDoubtAtheismTrainingOrdinaryThirdsPositive AtheismBelieverPracticalsCommunismAlternativesSuggestionsJustifiedConcealedOrdinary Man Author:Margaret E. Knight
“Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being which, because of ignorance and the lack of printing presses, had become exaggerated. He maintained that religions served their purpose; some people depended on them all their lives to make them honest. Others did not need to be so held in line. But subjection to any church was a reflection on strength and character. You should be able to get from yourself what you had to go go church for.” PeopleNeedsShouldHumansCharacterStoriesAblePurposeFatherChurchLinesHuman BeingsAttitudeAtheismHonestIgnoranceReflectionPressesPositive AtheismNobleToleranceOrthodoxTestamentNew TestamentPrintingExaggeratedPrinting PressSubjection Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger
“You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.” ShouldCharacterActorsChallengesConnectionsChallenge Yourself Author:Michael Ealy
“People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.” PeopleShouldTryingCharacterActingWatchesWatch Me Author:John Boyega
“There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find actors to come and do exactly that thing, then you're not gonna be working with that actor's own set of internal impulses and who they are, so the best work is always a coming together of the actor and the character.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingCharacterTogetherActorsImpulseFixedInternalsThink Of YouBest WorkComing Together Author:Lenny Abrahamson
“When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsShouldWritingCharacterStoriesActionGrowsWorryScriptsPlotMain Characters Author:Mel Brooks
“Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.” MenShouldCharacterSexDifferencesEqualMen And WomenAll ThingsMalesOld FashionedFlawedNeanderthals Author:Sandra Brown
“Husbands and wives, if you guys don’t have a beautiful marriage, a loving marriage, a romantic marriage you are ruining your eeman! You have to have a marriage so awesome that you don’t have to look at the character of a movie or a play and say ‘i wish i had a marriage like this’, your marriage should be better than that because otherwise, Sheytan will come to each one of you and say ‘man i wonder, is there anything better out there, why am I stuck in this?’ Both husband and wife have to work hard to make their relationship work not for yourselves but for your eeman!” IfsMenShouldLooksHardPlayCharacterBeautifulGuyWishWonderWifeHard WorkHusbandRomanticStuckMuslimHusband And WifeInspirational MarriageRomantic MarriageBeautiful Marriage Author:Nouman Ali Khan
“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.” ShouldFirstsHas BeensCharacterActionHalfNovelInevitableUnpredictableInevitabilityUnpredictability Book:Collected Impressions Source: Collected Impressions
“Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.” ShouldWholeCharacterGreaterImportancePlotEvident Book:Pictures and conversations Source: Pictures and conversations
“Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.” ShouldMindHeartSoulCharacterStarsFriendsOughtAccountsAbsolutesSatisfiedMutualTemporaryIncentivesLove One AnotherPropheticHeart Mind And Soul Author:Margaret Fuller
“Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. ... Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.” MenFeelsShouldHumansMayPersonsIdeasCharacterLyingOrderHuman BeingsSecretGroupsTraditionClimateSurfaceCoreEvery ManMysteriousConquerDefeatedVermontBelow The Surface Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.” WayFeelsShouldPersonsDoeCharacterPoliticalActorsResponsibilityTough Author:Emma Stone
“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.” ThinkingFeelsShouldTryingPersonsDifferentHardPlayCharacterClassOne ThingEffectsTheaterWho You AreRelateHelpful Author:Ryan Gosling
“A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.” MenShouldWellsCharacterShowsQualityFineFoolBoundsDefectsHypocriteMistrust Author:Joseph Joubert