- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!' which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
- Emotional Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020