Best sides & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

Ifs Play Character Guy Opportunity Sides Dark Chance Demand Narrative Yellow That Guy Dark Side

Author:Mark Strong

“All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.”

Character Actors Fun Sides Fun Things

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.”

Thinking Kind Character Certain Easy Sides Dark Cynical Dark Humor

Author:Ben Stiller

“A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.”

Ifs Looks Character Sides All Things Including Honestly Observation Contradiction Paradox Observers Seeming

Author:Richard Rohr

“To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.”

Character Sides Honest And Love Violent Flip Peace And Love Questionable Lennon

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.”

Character Sides Fire Paper Campaigns Dirt Papers Monopoly Cleveland Grover

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.”

People Way Giving Trying Humans Character Sides Chance

Author:Tom Ellis

“You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.”

Thinking Way Character Sides Audience Best Way

Author:Anna Kendrick

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Ifs Different Character Sides Goal Results Achieve Drama Conflict Stakes Both Sides Unyielding

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of a laugh, say what he may. He may utter as much nonsense as he pleases, and all will pass current. No one stops to question the coin of a rich man; but a poor devil cannot pass off either a joke or a guinea without its being examined on both sides. Wit and coin are always doubted with a threadbare coat.”

Men May Character Sides Poor Laughing Rich Fashion Please Jokes Devil Currents Wit Nonsense Coats Both Sides Coins Rich Man Doubted Guinea

Book:The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

Source: The Complete Tales of Washington Irving

“Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.”

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.”

Believe Character Sides Principles Strange Innocent Appetite Unfortunate Rumor

Author:Jane Porter

“I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Kind Different Character Young Actors Easy Stuff Sides Term Roles Comedy Stage Theater Know Me Different Directions Young Actors

Author:Andy Garcia

“I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.”

Littles Character Sides Female Witch Female Characters

Author:Madchen Amick

“Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.”

Character Home Together Sides Too Much Doors Color Oil Excellent Ingredients Connecting Good And Bad Stamina Incomparable Vinegar Insufferable

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.”

Mind Character Law Guy Certain Order Sides Growing Up Growing Feet Type Hero Spring Cinema Camps Ireland Bad Guys Law And Order Mcqueen

Author:Liam Neeson

“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.”

Long Enough Character Life Is Grows Sides Brain Genius Proportion Imperfect Superhuman Perfect Life

Book:the conqueror

Source: the conqueror

“As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.”

Want Humans Children Character Kids Able Parent Sides Human Beings Figures Shapes Our Children Clarity Your Children Good Character

Author:Joan Cusack

“I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.”

People Believe May Mean Different Character Sides Don't Believe Track Stereotype Typecasting They Are All The Same

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.”

Thinking Hard Character Sides Rocks Band Stones Appeals Feminine Rolling Masculine Rolling Stones Rock Bands

Author:Mick Jagger

“I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.”

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Author:Corey Feldman

“He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.”

Men Littles Character Sex Sides Space Interesting Rooms Ghost Modest Little Man Interesting Characters Depreciation Propitiation

Book:The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.”

Thinking Way Firsts Different Character Stories Sides Comedy Drama Empathy Coins Different Sides

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I never like to judge the character. I just have to leave my feelings of pity, or fear, about a character - whatever I feel towards the character, I try to leave to one side. It's good to have them, but it doesn't help me. I can't act those things. I just to play the character as truthfully as I can.”

Feels Trying I Can Play Character Helping Feelings Sides Judging Pity Help Me

Author:Richard Coyle

“For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.”

“I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.”

Character Sides Convincing

Author:Josh Hartnett

“Every one of us knows how painful it is to be called by malicious names, to have his character undermined by false insinuations, to be overreached in a bargain, to be neglected by those who rise in life, to be thrust on one side by those who have stronger wills and stouter hearts. Every one knows, also, the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out to help in distress, a difficulty solved, a higher hope revealed for this world or the next. By that pain and by that pleasure let us judge what we should do to others.”

“When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.”

People Character Difficult Sides Love Is Negative Unions Loving You Magnet One You Love

Author:Michael Bassey

“Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.”

Ifs Way Needs Character Might Action Sides Rooms Cutting Particular Scene Silent Manipulate Wrong Things Physical Things

Author:Gus Van Sant

“With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole cloth. It kind of freed up the analytical part of my brain and I had the opportunity to use more of the creative side of my brain for how things interact with light and integrate into stories.”

Trying Kind Made Whole Character Stories Use Light Opportunity Sides Brain Creative Figures Objects Creating Digital Transition Integrating Advent Imaging

Author:John Dykstra

“I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side to them. You don't normally get that in a film - and in a [film] series especially. To be able to do that was really cool.”

Thinking Play Character Shows Able Film Sides Serious Jokes Series Really Cool Somber

Author:James Phelps

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