Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Wahlberg

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

Mark Wahlberg

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.

Mark Wahlberg

I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.

Mark Hopkins

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Mark Billingham

If you're looking for an author who can deliver high-octane thrills every time and a character who is NOT to be messed with, you've found them. Zoë Sharp and Charlie Fox both kick ass.

Marian Anderson

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Marguerite Yourcenar

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

Mikhail Bakunin

Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

Mike Colter

When I find material that gives me a natural yet unique character point of view and has well- developed characters throughout the script, it makes the hairs on my arm stand up.

Mike Colter

Jessica Jones is very unique, and we are all in awe of the response from the public. It seems that everyone connected with the character, and we enjoyed shooting it.

Mike Colter

What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn't front and center because it was Jessica Jones' story, but it allowed me to find the character from a different perspective.

Mike Colter

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

Nicholas Eberstadt

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

Nicholas Hoult

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

Neil Armstrong

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Nathan Parsons

Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an opportunity to portray characters like that is inspiring.

Nathan Parsons

It's much easier to put yourself out there under the guise of a character. You get a different name, different habits, different words. When I have to just be Nathan, that's when I feel vulnerable.

Naomi Watts

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

Nadine Gordimer

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Miroslav Volf

Faith idles when character shrivels.

Mike O'Malley

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

R. A. Torrey

There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

R. C. Sproul

No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

Priyanka Chopra

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

Priyanka Chopra

I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational.

Priyanka Chopra

Every character that I play, even if it's a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her - you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn't just come from the physical strength of a woman.

Priyanka Chopra

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

Priyanka Chopra

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

Publilius Syrus

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Publilius Syrus

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

Neve Campbell

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

Nelson Mandela

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!