“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingWritingMindCharacterAbleDifficultEmotionStepsTeachHabitCircumstancesGiving UpSkinsDeterminedSentencesWhat You WantConventionalParagraphBasicsHabits Of Mind Author:Anne Bernays
“When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.” TryingCharacterThreePerfectStepsSteps ForwardHidden Truth Author:Rudolf Steiner
“In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.” PlayCharacterBigsChallengesStepsGoneBipolar Author:Kaitlyn Dever
“The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.” MenCharacterActionVoiceStepsQuietConversationUniformsHandwriting Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial 'solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.” IfsWellsCharacterProblemUnderstandingAttentionStepsSolutionsUniversalCrisisDepthInsightResolveAdequateScopeTheoreticalEcologicalCosmeticsDeep SeaEcological CrisisNecessary Change Author:Murray Bookchin
“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.” KnowsNeedsHumansLongPlayCharacterBigsOrderStepsCasesLaughingTaughtHumourTvsDramaLong TimeLaughterJokesTragedyInsightActressesRealisingSeventiesGreat WritersArthurAuschwitzChekhovGallows Author:Vanessa Redgrave
“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentCharacterSeemsMovingActorsActingStepsCrazyLike YouEasierLong TimeModelsBiggerDeeperTransitionLike YourselfModelling Author:Liberty Ross
“What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.” ThinkingYearsMayReasonCharacterGovernmentFormSpeakActingLibertyStepsTakenToo MuchWiseHorrorEqualCapableConsequenceIdealsBasesTriumphIncapableAstonishingRespectableGoverningDespotismForms Of GovernmentIrrevocableAvertSingle Step Author:George Washington
“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.” CharacterBodyPoliticalReligionChurchReligiousViewsStepsRightsMetsDemandSlaveryPropertyEducationalResistanceBitterOppositionWomens RightsEvery StepReligious FreedomTemperanceClergyKindredExponentsAnti SlaveryPolitical EqualityPersonal Rights Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.” ThinkingTryingFirstsDoneCharacterPleasureStepsReaderFirst StepsTricky Author:George Saunders
“Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.” IfsWantCharacterStepsFiguresScripts Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.” WantLooksTwoCharacterHelpingThreeStepsStageDirectorsBenefitsPagesIntentionDimensionsDistrustObjectivityConceitBetter Than YouTherapistsCollaboratorsThree Dimensions Author:Donald Margulies
“I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.” WantTryingCharacterAsksStepsHollywoodBe GoodPlatesStep Up Author:Martin Lawrence
“Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent” CharacterChristianLeadershipStepsTalent Author:Jeff Henderson
“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.” CharacterStepsAdultsSalvationErrorsTrialsDeprivedTrial And Error Author:Frances Gray Patton
“I like to find characters. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.” IfsI CanRealPlayCharacterCareLinesStepsFiguresBottomRoughBottom LineGet RealSteps In Life Author:William Fichtner
“Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.” WritingWellsI CanCharacterFilmFunViewsStepsRolesWonderfulDesignLimitsSkinsScriptsPoint Of ViewBudgetsFascinatingCompellingCostumesLightingZips Author:Robin Hobb
“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.” ThinkingMenWayWellsCharacterValuesCommonActingStepsSupportVirtueHonestGoodnessCharityGenerosityCommon Life Author:Laurence Sterne
“I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.” EndsCharacterFactsProblemCertainNationsUnderstandingUnitedStepsSolutionsImportanceTreatedLeagueBroadsEndeavorUnited NationsUndertakingsLeague Of Nations Author:George C. Marshall
“If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the actor who's very focused on the narrative, where my character is in the story, and how I can benefit the story. I've always had a technical aspect of what the lens is, how the camera is going to move, how I can feed the information the director applies within that move. If you're that type of actor, narrative-based, technically proficient, the next step is actually not that far.” IfsI CanCharacterStoriesMovingCertainNextActorsNaturalStepsInformationTypeDirectorsBenefitsAspectCamerasShoesFocusedNarrativeTransitionLensesNext Steps Author:Russell Crowe
“The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.” MayCharacterLife IsStepsVirtueYouthProveImportanceProsperityAcquireUsefulnessFuture Prosperity Author:Abigail Adams
“For me, a lot of these actors are new. For me, I only worked with Finn Whittrock and Michael Chiklis. So a lot of these actors are people I've been a huge fan of for years and are bucket-list actors for me to get to work with. It's pretty surreal now getting to step into scenes with them.You all get to find your characters together.” PeopleYearsCharacterTogetherActorsStepsFansHugeSceneListsSurrealBucketsBucket List Author:Matt Bomer
“And, for any performer, to be able to go deep into character is fantastic. In film you only get to do that if you're the leading character. But in television you get 18 hours to really test the audience and take them to the edge of how far they will go with this character. I can step over this line and I love that.” IfsI CanCharacterAbleFilmHoursLinesStepsAudienceTelevisionTestsEdgesFantasticPerformers Author:Cillian Murphy
“Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be. I'm able to step into these other parts of myself. I feel like, as long as I keep doing that in my career, and I keep tapping into different parts of the human condition, that's all I ask for.” FeelsHumansLongI CanDifferentSometimesCharacterMightAbleGirlAsksStepsCareersConditionsBritishShyHuman ConditionViciousTappingFeisty Author:Rose McIver
“I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.” CharacterStepsAccents Author:Mia Wasikowska
“Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.” MindMeanLongCharacterCan DoStepsTakenMachinesMereSensesGatheringPower Of The MindOutgoing Author:Swami Vivekananda