#hara

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#actually #always #character #class #come

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl. ↗

— Parker Posey

#annoying #character #character actor #girl #go

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.' ↗

— Franka Potente

#damon #fell #girl #great #here

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#characters #her #his #novelist #personal

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#acquire #already #also #assist #attracting

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#big #big believer #certain #certain extent #certainly

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#bad #character #good #i #just