“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.” EndsWholeCharacterFeelingsRealityLostStuffLosesComedyEmotionalEmptyConnectionsViewersStrainBananasEmotional ConnectionFunny Stuff Author:Mike White
“For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.” CharacterHappensActionBeautifulEmptyComplexesBurningFrustrationInternalsStigma Author:Ruth Wilson
“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.” MayDoeCharacterSeemsAmericaCertainFictionUnited StatesGracePaintingTerribleFairsEmptyMarkCloudsWitMeritLightningSculptureEloquenceOutlinesOverflowDerivativesBeholderVases Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.” IfsCharacterWaterEmptyGlasses Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensCharacterFilmToo MuchJokesEmptyRelyComing OutWoodyGreat Film Author:Brett Gelman
“What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.” WellsIdeasMatterCharacterStrongConsciousnessFitEmptyImpactDefinitionsCoreCollectionsAttributes Author:Kurt Busiek
“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.” ThinkingHeartMayPlayCharacterRunningFormActorsWinningPleasureHellCrazyMastersOffersEmptyBonesBridgesSubtleOscarsBrillianceShowing OffGreat Actors Author:Peter Travers
“The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.” ThinkingKnowsCharacterTermHalfEmptyClaimsBoundsGlassesBoxesOptimisticPromotingProgrammesHalf EmptyReticence Author:Rowan Atkinson
“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.” IfsEndsCharacterStoriesSeemsNextCompanyWonderfulTearsAdventureEmptyBitterMeaninglessNever Ending Story Author:Michael Ende
“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.” ThinkingKnowsWayPersonsCharacterBehindsFictionTruth IsEmptyTrailsInk Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?” CharacterStoriesWould BeTurnsLeftSidesCommonSituationEmptyEssenceLove StoryDumbConcreteCastlesIllusoryOphelia Author:Milan Kundera
“I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.” IfsWellsMayMadeI CanRealMatterCharacterLightPastRoomsFateEmptySuicideCommitRealizationClockElectricDeceivingShellsCheerfulEnthusiasticBrillianceStarksYour RoomElectric LightClock TickingEmpty Shell Author:Sylvia Plath
“Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.” MatterCharacterLibertyEmptyWeightFundamentalsEmpty Words Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel