#characters

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#dealing #easy #feed #forget #into

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. ↗

— Ken Follett

#books #characters #decorative #masculine #often

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#dialogue #get #other #people #phrase

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#characters #death #life #reading #death

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#activities #already #basketball #characters #classical

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#analyzing #been #beyond #characters #grateful

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun. ↗

— James Franco

#always #art #art form #challenge #challenged

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#character #characters #even #feel #i

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#care #characters #done #dreamt #even