Quotes about Characterization

I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.

It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

If you're going to create a character, the tools you use to make that character 'real' are the lives you see around you. The people you listen to on the street. The emotions you see on faces and bodies while you're sitting... in a Starbucks, watching the world go by.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.