#character

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation. ↗

— Walter Hill

#characters #come #guy #know #oh

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#attracted #been #being #characters #circumstances

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#bad #bad guy #because #broad #characters

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#done #drop #just #like #other

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

#character #completely #conditions #customary #defined

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

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#blood #character #flesh #hand #i

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#acting #bad #bad man #basic #because