Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

Javier Bardem

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

Jeff Lemire

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

Tom Hardy

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

A. S. Byatt

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

Thayer David

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

Thomas Steinbeck

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

Trudi Canavan

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

John Banville

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

Les Kynett

We want racers, former racers, officials, former officials, crews, press, and especially fans to come out for the farewell party.

Aasif Mandvi

I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Greg Lowell

We've started well this year in big games. It got our fans into it and got our kids going early.

Jonathan Cain

We've seen a Renaissance in the fans ... a lot of younger 18-to-25 demographics.

Eileen collins

We have had a fantastic mission. We are so glad to come back and be able to say it's a success.

Josh Turner

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

David Mackay

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Isaiah Swann

We want it. We feel hungry. But sometimes we mess ourselves up.

Marlene Rosenberg

We want everyone to be welcome to Beth Zion. That is a big message of Messiah.

Bob Wilson

We were a mess for the first week or two.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.

Brian Eno

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Mark Phelan

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

William Andrews

We used to watch a lot of movies,

Taylor Handley

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

Tom Irwin

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Terry Hayes

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Ehren Kruger

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Eiza Gonzalez

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

Charles Kennedy

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

Richard Peterson

Numerous people are very proud of the work we've put into this.

Tatum O'Neal

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

Tom Burch

We had numerous scoring opportunities after that. We played much better in the second half.

Chris Henson

We can do it quickly because we talked about numerous scenarios.

Gerald Myers

I was just thinking this is the person we want for this job. The reasons are too numerous to name.

Frances Townsend

If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Most of them were inconsistent.

Bob Corkins

School choice, vouchers, is not on the table. There are numerous other things that still need to be done.

Dan Hahn

He's very brutal, very violent. This person has threatened numerous people ...

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Kim Cattrall

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

David Blair

We know we have a long ways to go with the Missoula public.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

Colin Devine

There are ways to get around that, though.

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Sebastian Seung

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

Herman Edwards

There are a lot of ways you can do that, and that's why I'm not saying, ... I don't want to say anything at this point.