Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's gratifying to know for our funding we're not out of character with other higher-education efforts.

Charlie Villanueva

It's great to see myself in a videogame, ... I just wish my character was really this good when the game comes out.

It's set in high school, so it's a different demographic we're going for. You look at those characters and you go, 'What would they be like 10 or 15 years earlier than the characters you saw in the first one?

Tom Selleck

For a character with longevity, you have to have that.

Scott Bakula

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.

Joe Gibbs

It's not Xs and Os. It's people and character and making great plays, ... It's more of a personal thing. It's the character. It's the fight - because up here most of the guys who get to this level are obviously talented.

Stewart Cink

It just reminds me that the ones doing the work aren't the ones playing tournament golf. They've taken a lot of the character out of it.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it.

Shaun Pollock

It's always good to have a partner who is full of energy, and who you can see is giving it 110 percent all the time. You need those kind of characters in a side.

It's always my favorite because I do some of the stuff the main character does.

Robin McLeavy

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

Manuel Puig

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Madeline Kahn

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played,

Madeleine Stowe

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

Madeleine L'Engle

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Madeleine L'Engle

The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

Madeleine L'Engle

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

Lytton Strachey

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Lynne Truss

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

Lysander Spooner

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

Lysander Spooner

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Lucy Lawless

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Lucy Punch

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

Lucy Hale

I would take it to heart if people were mad about something my character did.

Lucy Liu

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Lucy Liu

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Lucy Liu

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Lucy Larcom

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Louisa May Alcott

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

Lou Ferrigno

The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

John Fowles

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

Jonathan Mayhew

They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the fear of God.’ When once magistrates act contrary to their office, and the end of their institution when they rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace … they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.

Jonathan Keltz

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.