Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Stroud

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

I just told them how honored and proud I am to be a part of this football team. I've been on some great football teams and this may not be the most talented team, but as far as character and heart and never-die mentality, this is as good as it gets.

Armando Iannucci

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.

Mark Harmon

I recognized this as a strong character piece, where there is always a caper.

Daniel Sharman

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Robert Carlyle

I'll spare you the actors' pretentious rubbish, but a face reflects experience, so if you concentrate on a character something happens to you physically. Many actors look at the costume before the part, and that seems crazy to me. It's much more fun to be ugly. Not that I think I'm ugly, but I've never considered myself good-looking.

Jim Calhoun

I'll go home and sleep exceptionally well. I feel wonderful about the win. I feel wonderful about the fact that our character and our toughness are being tested.

Nicki Minaj

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I'll tell you what, two overtime games in 48 hours is quite a bit. It's just a test of our character and how hard we played to be able to win this game.

Joel Kinnaman

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

Danny Aiello

I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my character was troublesome to me.

I know it sparks me. Just seeing him run around and be a goof. He hits people, fights people, then jokes about it in the locker room. He's a character guy, an energy guy.

Darnell Dockett

I know a lot of players on that team, so I know their character. They are going to talk trash and play dirty. That's just the way they are.

Aidan Gillen

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

George Washington

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.

Susan Isaacs

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

Mariah Carey

It's not about my character, but she has an important part of the story without the whole thing resting on my shoulders. Plus, I'll be able to get up and go to work and be somebody else for the day, and we like that, because sometimes you just need to get away.

Edie Falco

It's not about finding the character any more. It's about actually being in it and going wherever she goes.

Brandon Routh

It's nice to watch the character mature, rather than just to start over again.

A person's face tells much about their character and feelings.

A person's character is revealed by their speech

Jay Farrar

serves as a sort of inspirational character or a point of reference when thinking about topical issues. He had a willingness to take social injustice head-on and write about it.

That?s a lack of character in that situation. We can?t do it.

That mental toughness we talked about all preseason, we showed that tonight. We showed character tonight, we showed mental toughness tonight. That's something that we didn't have last year that we've got right now.

A rich man has no need of character.

The kids showed character all the way, even in defeat. It?s been a joy to be with them this year.

The kids showed a lot of character to fight back. We had some opportunities tonight.

Mark Ruffalo

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

With 'Related' and 'Hot Properties,' these are characters you've seen before. It seems like a formula and in wake of 'Sex and the City,' it seems like they're trying to rip it off.

What happened tonight validates our program. When you play with a lot of character and heart like our kids did it makes the game fun.

G. H. Hardy

We teach our guys it's all about character and class and we showed a lot of both.

(Thursday) was a big test of character for our guys. We know Tampa Prep will be a huge challenge, but we're up for it.