Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.
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The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
If you are the sort of character who likes to feel you are in a battle, then make sure you do that.
You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create...
What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.
Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed...
With TV, your structure is determined by the series not the episode. You can have incident without consequence to the character, but keep your eye on the ticking clock of the series.
I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.
Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
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Unusually, one entry borrows the word from physics, describing the dual wave-and-particle character of matter and radiation. Continue with Characters quotes or Character Development quotes.
