#real people

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#characters #creating #define #dislike #embellish

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#characters #exist #fictional #get #head

Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#lets #people #processes #real #real people

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that. ↗

— William Devane

#i #learn #like #me #only

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#hell #i #i think #people #place

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #characters #every #feeling #knows

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#around #barbara #carry #conversations #dolls

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. ↗

— Grace Jones

#fantasy #illusion #like #look #models