Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Newman

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Paul Newman

A man without enemies is a man without character.

Paul Newman

If you have no enemies, you have no character.

Paul Newman

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

Paul Newman

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Paul Eldridge

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Paul Feig

I just love Kate. [Bieber], to me, is one of the funniest impressions because it's so all encompassing. It's like a total body and soul impression. But that's Kate. Every character she does is that way.

Paul Feig

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

Matt Groening

I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul.

Matt Groening

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Marya Hornbacher

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

Marya Hornbacher

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Mary Grandpre

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Marshall McLuhan

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Marshall McLuhan

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Mark Goddard

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

Mark Gatiss

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.

Mark Gatiss

[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and engaging about Moriarty. There was something fascinating and actually amoral, rather than immoral, about Charles Augustus Magnussen. This guy is the purest evil. Sherlock [Holmes] is actually appalled by him.

Mark Hamill

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

Mark Hamill

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

Mark Haddon

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Mark Haddon

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Mark Haddon

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

Marisa Tomei

Her [Aunt May] values and his [ Spiderman] traumas are kind of what's defined him as a young boy and now that he's becoming a young man, she's there to provide that safe place where he can still be a kid if he needs to be, or know that he has a home base as he's going through all these physical changes. So as long as those essentials are there, we can work on finding the character together.

Marion Cotillard

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

Marion Cotillard

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this...

Marion Cotillard

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

Marion Cotillard

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think I'll enjoy it even more than before, because now I know that characters truly exist in their own right. I'll have a way to bring them even more intensely to life.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.