Best inspiration & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

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Author:Elliott Yamin

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.”

Years Has Beens Character Inspiration Able Turns Actors Loses Dramatic

Author:Adhir Kalyan

“For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.”

Writing Character Stories Inspiration Voice Novel Narrative Inspiration To Write Narrative Voice

Author:Scott Bradfield

“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.”

Character Inspiration Easy Enemy Nice Being Nice Lack Of Character

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.”

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Author:Doc Brown

“The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.”

World Want Firsts Character Stories Inspiration Vision Inspire

Author:Keanu Reeves

“While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!”

Real Character Stories Inspiration Life Is Given Fiction Good Things Real Life Turmoil

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much he based his stories and characters on mythology of various types. He was very deep and in many ways a genius.”

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Author:Raymond Buckland

“But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.”

Ifs Ideas Character Stories Inspiration Able Breathe Flash Intriguing

Book:Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel

Source: Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel

“I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Humans Looks Important Play Character Inspiration Human Beings Ability Youth Regret Development Advantage

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.”

People Writing Ideas Character Inspiration Poor Poverty Preaching Poor People Didactic

Author:Robert McKee

“When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.”

Way Want Needs Persons Real Soul Character Inspiration Pieces Honor Flames Small Pieces Real Character

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.”

Sometimes Character Inspiration Sky

Author:Dylan McDermott

“That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts are coming in to give you notes then the more problems you run into and the more it suddenly doesn't seem like the movie, the story, the characters changed, watered down and we don't have that with this.”

Giving Character Stories Problem Inspiration Seems Running Changed Down And Notes

Author:Todd Farmer

“When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a muse. You can hear music on the streets. There's a certain character the city has that inspires you when you're needing to write lyrics and come up with melodies and come up with rhythm and blues. The city has a pulse and it's an inspiration for me.”

Writing Hard Character Inspiration Certain Cities Creative Streets Inspire Come Up Rhythm Los Angeles Melody Muse Be Creative New Orleans Pulse Rhythm And Blues

Author:Chris Thomas King

“Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road. Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.”

People Knows Art Character Inspiration Actors Sound Answers Watches Inspire Right Now Behavior Draws All Things Landscape Cop Surroundings Down The Road

Author:Josh McDermitt

“Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character”

Character Inspiration Habit Blame Bad Habits Builder

Author:Orlando Aloysius Battista

“I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.”

Way Character Inspiration Courses Educated Hanging Out Crash Murphy

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“With Erin [from Paper Girls], I wanted to show what she might look like when she's 40, and I wanted it to feel authentic. In terms of inspiration I ended up using my wife for a lot of it. Just to kind of to give me almost an anchor so that I would be invested in making this character real.”

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Author:Cliff Chiang

“We're looking at a lot of race cars as inspiration for our starships. It's wonderful. It's surreal. I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be a Star Trek writer, so to be able to craft a new iteration of the show with new characters and a whole new adventure and whole new way of telling stories that you haven't been able to tell on Star Trek is honorable and it's a dream come true. It's hard to articulate that.”

Character Dream Inspiration Wonderful Car Adventure Honorable Dreams Come True Surreal Race Car New Adventure

Author:Bryan Fuller

“I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration when the costumes arrive and I can see his silhouette in the mirror. Then I go memorize all the lines and try and connect each line to a thought I think he might have. Then I show up on the day, wait my turn, and when the director calls "action," I trust that I have done enough work on my impression that I can just believe it strongly enough to play with abandon from inside that character.”

Thinking Trying Believe Done Enough Character Inspiration Action Waiting Nice Impression Abandon Just Believe

Author:Bryce Pinkham

“I never really put pressure on myself to make things seem new and spontaneous, mostly because I think everything is kind of derivative at this point. I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies. Those relationships are kind of where I've gotten inspiration for this character and this relationship. But I think what makes it new is just the words coming out of my mouth personally, and my take on it based on my own personal life experience is hopefully going to add something a little different, and add some flavor to it.”

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Author:Judy Greer

“I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love cinematic music. A lot of the time, I make playlists for my characters when I act. I also make playlists for the scripts that I write.”

Thinking Writing Character Inspiration Music Is I Love Music

Author:Quinn Shephard

“I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently, or thing about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.”

People Thinking World Character Inspiration Meaningful

Author:Dee Rees

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

Character Humor Inspiration Motivational Leadership Ability Personality Manners Civil War Cynicism Altruism Courtesy Tact

Book:Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”

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Author:Alan K. Simpson

“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

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Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.”

Character Inspiration Speak Integrity Separation Character Education Words You Speak Separate Lives

Author:Paul Wellstone

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