#hara

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ↗

— Frank Miller

#characters #defined #environment #having #how

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. ↗

— Henry Miller

#character #her #here #life #make

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#character #gaze #his #managed #mastery

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. ↗

— Donna Mills

#always #characters #cutting #dialogue #doing

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did. ↗

— Donna Mills

#because #bugging #business #business sense #character

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character. ↗

— Donna Mills

#create #eight #episodes #essential #get

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air. ↗

— Martin Milner

#after #air #become #certain #certain point

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. ↗

— John Milton

#character #deeds #himself #his #man

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#auditioning #character #characters #different #different characters