Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Clayburgh

I dont theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that shes thinking,

Jill Clayburgh

I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Jill Clayburgh

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Jesse McCartney

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

Jesse Jackson

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

Jennifer Lee

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

Jennifer Lee

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

Jennifer Morrison

As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television shows where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.

Jennifer Lynch

For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

Jennifer Lawrence

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse.

Jennifer Lawrence

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Jennifer Lawrence

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

Jennifer Lopez

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

Jean M. Auel

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

Jean Kerr

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

James Buchan

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

James Cameron

I don't feel that I'm making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch movie on an iPhone, I'm not going to stop them, especially if they're paying for it, but I don't recommend it. I think it's dumb, when you have characters that are so small in the frame that they're not visible. I'm trying to make an epic.

James Cameron

Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.

James Cameron

In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

James A. Michener

You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.

James A. Garfield

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

James A. Garfield

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

James A. Baldwin

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

Jacqueline Bisset

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

Jacqueline Bisset

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty.

Jacqueline Bisset

Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.

Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Jacqueline Carey

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Jacqueline Carey

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Jackie Gleason

I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.

Christopher Lambert

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.