#hara

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#bipolar #bit #certainly #character #depression

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#change #character #frustrating #get #going

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#great #had #i #played #some

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#been #characters #deals #great #humanity

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#ai #annoying #bad #because #characters

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#continuance #down #impulse #into #steady

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#just #listen #luck #really #telling

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#because #character #different #felt #forgot

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#character #comes #doing #fire #front