Characterization Quotes

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.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.