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Character:
mid-14c., carecter, "symbol marked or branded on the body;"
“Ultimately, we are not our character—it is a “symbol” which has been “marked on the body” by our experience. The role of the actor is to create that “mark” and allow it’s embodiment.
We are animated by our essence however much our mind and bodies are “branded” as character.”
— Dov Tiefenbach
"Character structure is the configuration of physical, emotional and mental distortions that compromise a person's defense against a reality that is perceived as painful and dangerous"
— John Pierrakos
“Character is the mechanical in us. It is habit and pattern, an unconscious structure, a mindless, repetition of a way of doing everything, based on images and beliefs that rarely reach the surface.”
— Ron Kurtz
“Knowledge doesn’t exist unless it’s in the body”
— Papua New Guinea saying
“Character isn’t a unique person, It’s a unique experience.”
— Dov Tiefenbach
“There is an infinite amount of selves within. We’ve chosen a persona in order to navigate life based on our conditioning and wounding. Tapping into the power to BE and experience different points of view is the creative joy of acting—getting to feel ourselves as different experiences.”
— Dov Tiefenbach
“Character is an experience-of-reality defined as filters creating specific character beliefs, thoughts, intentions and feelings. A person fashions these lenses in order to make sense of the world and keep themselves safe. The somatic sense of being-in-character is a visceral, human experience of reality which generally remains unconscious and unquestioned.”
— Dov Tiefenbach
“We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.”
— Anais Nin
“Spiritual-Somatic work exposes the individual to her contrivances of character and demands an accounting for energy denied”
— Brian Gleason
“No technique can come anywhere near the power of your own creative force, already perfectly functioning within you.”
— Dov Tiefenbach