Characterization Quotes - Page 2

• I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Understanding, Humanity

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• When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Play, Literature

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• The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Years, Two

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Yield, Mind

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• But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.

  Joe Fafard

  Clay, Looks, Portraiture

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• I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Strong, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

  Lake Bell

  Ideas, Different, Lucky

  "Lake Bell on ‘Man Up’, Simon Pegg, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

  Ben Lerner

  Art, Reading, Offering

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.

  Anne Hathaway

  Color, Imagination, Different

  "New Anne Hathaway Image from ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Studio Provided Interview". collider.com. February 2, 2010.

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• A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

  Ayn Rand

  Plot, Three, Scene

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.348, Penguin

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• It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they distrust their own standards and hesitate to give voice to their deeper convictions, submitting supinely to estimates and characterizations of themselves as handed down by a not unprejudiced dominant majority.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Voice, Giving, Majority

  Anna Julia Cooper (1988). “A Voice From the South”, p.43, Oxford University Press

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• I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

  John Bolton

  Believe, Bumper Sticker, Foreign Policy

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• Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

  Tom Hanks

  Light, Self, Feelings

  Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. January 9, 2014.

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• One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

  Carl Sagan

  Heart, Exercise, Ideas

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Self, Parent, Perception

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• Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hero, Dwarves, Ideas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

  Michael Caine

  Character, Acting, Actors

  Michael Caine (2000). “Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making”, p.88, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

  Leon Surmelian

  Character, Self, Human Nature

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• Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments about everyone who passes by." Unlike George Bush, who's the guy at the country club who makes snide comments, and then passes out. Now this characterization, of course, was something Mr. Rove just completely pulled out of his bulbous, gelatinous a$$, but remember this is America, a land where people believe anything they hear.

  Bill Maher

  Beautiful, Country, Business

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• I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.

  William Powell

  Attitude, Trying, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

  Garth Stein

  Art, Book, Inspiration

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• Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

  Craig Shaw Gardner

  Stars, Book, Fiction Novels

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• THE ABULON DANCE is an intricate and fast-paced novel of political intrigue and clashing alien cultures. The characterizations are rich, detailed, and subtle, the action engrossing. I finished it in a single sitting.

  Robin Wayne Bailey

  Political, Culture, Sitting

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• Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made. How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.

  Alan Briskin

  Decision, Kind, Judgment

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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