Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Jean Baudrillard

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Jay Pharoah

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Jay Roach

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

Jay Roach

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

Jay Hernandez

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

Jay Baruchel

I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.

Muriel Spark

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...

Mo Yan

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Ming-Na Wen

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Mindy Kaling

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

Mindy Kaling

People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

Mindy Kaling

Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

Mindy Kaling

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

Mindy Kaling

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

Mike Berry

Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.

Kurt Masur

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

Kurt Masur

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.

Ksenia Solo

I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So, overcoming those challenges and really discovering characters that aren't like me helps me grow, as a person and as an artist.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.

Kirk Hammett

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

Kirk Douglas

I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .

Kirk Cameron

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

Kirsten Dunst

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

Kirsten Dunst

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

Kirsten Dunst

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

Kirsten Dunst

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Kimberly Elise

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

Kimberly Elise

I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's helping me deal with it. I get to see the movie through the audience's eyes and that's really gratifying.

Kim Cattrall

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

Kim Cattrall

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

Kevin Costner

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.