Kristan Higgins Quotes

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

I never had any thought behind anything I did in the beginning, to be honest.

Shoes tell you a lot about someone. Think of 'Strangers on a Train.' The first thing we see are Bruno's shoes. We know right away that something is up.

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Usually, one of the first things I think about when I'm developing a character is what they're wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

I'm so interested in people's journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.

A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.

I'm always interested in a character who does something and doesn't understand why they've done it.

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like, what they don't like, what they experience, and what they go through.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.