Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Greene

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.

Graham Greene

One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

Graham Greene

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Giovanni Ribisi

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

Gisele Bundchen

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

Gil Gerard

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

Georgina Haig

You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

Harper Lee

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Halle Berry

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Halle Berry

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Halle Berry

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

Halle Berry

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

Gregory Peck

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

Hope Davis

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

Hope Davis

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

Horace Bushnell

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

Horace Bushnell

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Holliday Grainger

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

Holliday Grainger

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

Holt McCallany

You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.

Holt McCallany

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Ian McShane

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

Ian McShane

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Ian Rankin

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

Ian Mckellen

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, 'do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were really landed on it.'

Ian Mckellen

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Iain Banks

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

Hugh Grant

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

Hrithik Roshan

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.