“If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterFilmValuesPlansYeahFactorsRecognitionOrganizedThey SaidYogiGreat FilmScooby DooFlintstones Author:Fred Seibert
“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.” PeopleThinkingWellsSaidCharacterAspectAgentsNarrativeHatsExpensesDisagreeAuditionsThrillersMonologuesChristieShowcase Author:Thomas Howes
“There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.” WorldMayPersonsSaidCharacterKingsPossession Book:Character Source: Character
“I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.” ThinkingSaidCharacterAdversityCoachesLombardi Author:Mike Sherman
“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.” FirstsPersonsSaidCharacterFactsHappensBehindsTalkingProjectsDimensionsDislikeFirst PersonExhibitionism Author:Pedro Almodovar
“I'll never forget my high school acting teacher, Anthony Abeson, who said, "It starts with the shoes." When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them? If I'm going to put on a dress for a role - I don't care if it's the hardest dress to put on - I have to put the shoes on first. The physicality leads me to the character.” IfsThinkingFirstsKindDoeSaidCharacterCareSchoolWalksForgetActingRolesTeacherHigh SchoolDressesShoesDon't CareHardestI Don't CareNever ForgetLeading MePhysicalityActing Teachers Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.” WayMeanSaidReasonCharacterCertainThreeProveSpeciesSpeakersAppearingPersuading Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric
“He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.” IfsThinkingSaidCharacterLyingAsksGamesHouseForgetHonorProducersReleaseAsk MeRanTolerateScreeningSchmoozing Author:Lauren Bacall
“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.” IfsDoeSaidCharacterTurnsSexResultsBehindsIdentityExpressionConsequenceGenderDistinctionConstructsBeing ThereGender IdentitySex And Gender Author:Judith Butler
“I think a lot of people have seen me on The Simple Life and think I'm a "spoilt airhead," but I was playing a character. The producers said they wanted Nicole and I just to be crazy and funny and say outlandish things.” PeopleThinkingSaidCharacterWantedSimpleCrazyProducersSimple LifeBeing CrazyNicoleOutlandishSpoiltAirheads Author:Paris Hilton
“I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.” SaidCharacterFunBuildingFineMiserableCharacter Building Author:Diana Krall
“When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we met Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. All of the people who died of excess were our big brothers and sisters. So I said to myself: How do you become a legend and enjoy it? The answer is to create a character as legendary as those guys and leave that character on the stage.” PeopleFirstsLittlesSaidCharacterBigsGuyEnjoyAnswersDoorsStageBrotherMetsBandDiedMovedLegendsExcessBrothers And SistersGarageLegendaryHendrix Author:Alice Cooper