#character

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. ↗

— Spike Lee

#characters #difference #hollywood #mine #real

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#always #aware #being #being funny #character

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#out #play #right #stay #step

The character of a people may be ruined by charity. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#charity #may #people #ruined

I like complicated characters. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#complicated #i #like

You express the truth of your character with the choice of your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#character #choices #truth #experience

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#creative-process #fiction #realism #truth #writing

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#difficulty #perseverance #potentiality #trial #perseverance