Tennessee Williams Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

  Tennessee Williams

  Strong, Character, Hysteria

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Play, Theatre

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

• But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memorable, Character, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

• I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

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  Writing, Character, Desire

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

• People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.

  Tennessee Williams

  Moving, Adventure, Character

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.47, Heinemann

• In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Simplicity, Humans

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

• I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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