“I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.” ThinkingWantCharacterAblePositionTypeHollywoodTongueBitesVillain Author:Gabrielle Union
“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.” CharacterStoriesNovelPositionStandingFurnitureTediousDuration Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I relate to those characters - and any character I play - in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.” FeelsPlayCharacterDealsPositionRelate Author:Nathan Fillion
“It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.” CharacterWinningTeamPositionTestamentComeback Author:Adam Gilchrist
“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.” IfsMenMaySelfCharacterHoursQualityInfluenceExamplePositionHe ManMastersExerciseDisregard Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.” ThinkingStatesCharacterAbleMistakeAudiencePositionPeriodsSmartGoldenCinemaClassicMisconception Author:Asghar Farhadi
“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.” MenWorldHumansDifferentCharacterCertainHuman BeingsPositionGoodnessDirectRelationAverageIntuitionSensual Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938 Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938
“I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.” IfsCharacterCoursesBehindsComedyStagePositionDramaClubsActiveHidingAversionDrama Club Author:Bob Newhart
“It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.” PeopleNeedsKindCharacterLiteraturePositionPicksPrepared Author:Garth Ennis
“Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.” GivingWellsCharacterPositionProudDignityAddCarriages Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.” ImportantCharacterFactsThreeSuccessfulPositionLaysKnivesThree ThingsHostesses Author:Elsa Maxwell
“Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.” MenPersonsHas BeensMomentsCharacterGovernmentEnergyNationsChallengesUnitedPrinciplesPositionSeriousOrganizationDistinctionSovereigntyUnited NationsExclusionAffiliationInceptionInstallation Author:Shirley Hazzard
“What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.” WritingTryingCharacterPosition Author:Bill Watterson
“When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.” WantTryingCharacterPositionCamerasWorried Author:Nicolas Cage
“There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.” WayKindTwoCharacterCareAgeWantedTogetherGuyActorsEnjoyDifferencesPositionChangedDrinkTwo ThingsHanging OutVirginsCastingKeithCharacter ActorsLeonardoTwo Of UsLeo Dicaprio Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.” ThinkingFirstsWellsIdeasSometimesMatterCharacterCertainActorsMy OwnActingWatchesOne ThingPositionScenePressesInstinctDialogueProducersI've LearnedThings I've Learned Author:Gerard Butler
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.” SelfCharacterIndividualWealthResponsibilityPositionEqualJudgmentConscienceDignityAddRecognitionMeritArtificialSovereigntyInheritanceAttainmentIndividual ResponsibilityConceded Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene, or anything like that. I just try to put myself in the characters position, and that helps. It's never really fun, but at the same time, if you're having a really bad day, it's a great way to get out all of your frustration by doing a really angry or sad scene. That's always a good release.” IfsWayTryingCharacterHelpingFunCryPositionSceneAngryReleaseFrustrationBad DayReally Bad Days Author:Abigail Breslin
“I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.” KindI CanPlayCharacterDreamKidsGuyActorsRolesPlayerPositionBecomingLuckyBaseballYankeesGood MovieBaseball PlayerCharacter ActorsLucky Guy Author:Christopher Walken
“All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.” IfsWorldCharacterImaginePositionPreparationLeapImaginative Author:Michael Chabon
“When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with acting, it's just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it's always about me.” CharacterFeelingsLove IsActingVisionPositionDirectorsCreatingWeird Feeling Author:Lenny Kravitz
“May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!” MayCountryCharacterStupidPositionGeniusDisasterGood CharacterBad Character Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.” CharacterWealthPositionSupreme Author:John D. Rockefeller
“I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they're in or why they make certain choices, then you can get behind them.” IfsThinkingCharacterCertainChoicesBehindsPosition Author:Christian Cooke
“My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansArtImportantCharacterFeelingsLinesEmotionMistakePositionContrastSymbolicCommercial Art Author:Roy Lichtenstein
“I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.” FeelsTryingPersonsCharacterUseImaginationPosition Author:Elle Fanning
“Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.” PeopleShouldCharacterSpiritualPositionProvenSpiritual Leadership Author:Max Anders
“The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.” IfsCharacterVoicePartyMediaPositionScotlandScottish Author:Sean Connery
“[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.” PersonsDoneCharacterWould BeCertainVoiceSilencePositionJokesAskingVictimAccomplishedPushingProvokingAngleRevealingAmusingArranging Author:Philippe Halsman
“A lot of people don't see me as a funny character because I don't usually get to play them. I'm usually cast in the more dramatic roles, so it's been a really, really fun time playing her humor and her attitude. She's a complete tomboy, so I did a really intense study on men and how they relate to each other, in the way they walk and hold themselves and position themselves in the hierarchy, just in something as simple as a conversation.” PeopleMenWayPlayCharacterFunSimpleWalksAttitudeRolesStudyPositionConversationCastsIntenseRelateDramaticHierarchyFun TimesFunny Character Author:Angie Harmon
“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.” PeopleWantBelieveIdeasCountryCharacterAmericaI BelieveInterestChallengesClearSecurityPositionAmbitionPicksLet MeAcknowledgeDisagreeNational SecurityMccainNational Interests Author:Barack Obama
“We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.” ImportantCharacterStoriesShowsBigsWantedGoalJusticePositionMembersListsLeagueAtlantisJustice League Author:Geoff Johns
“I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.” ShouldBelieveHeartCharacterPositionWho You AreDefinitions Author:Cody Johnson
“When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.” ThinkingWorldFeelsLooksDifferentCharacterUniverseForceNumbersNiceCreationPositionStormWideComicFascinatingFoxesCablesReally Nice Author:Mark Millar
“You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.” IfsWorldTryingCharacterActorsFictionPiecesNiceHappenedPositionEasierDrawsResearchBackgroundsVery NicePortraying Author:Jamie Dornan