Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Young

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

Marguerite Young

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Oswald Chambers

When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

Oswald Chambers

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

Oswald Chambers

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

Oswald Chambers

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

Oswald Chambers

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

Oswald Chambers

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

Paul Rudd

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

Paul Greengrass

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

Paul Haggis

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

Paul Haggis

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

Paul Haggis

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.

Paul Haggis

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

Paul Auster

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

Paul Auster

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

Paul Auster

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Paul Auster

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation....

Paul Auster

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

Paul Auster

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

Patrick Macnee

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

Patrick Marber

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Patrick Marber

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Pam Grier

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Juno Temple

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

Juno Temple

There are two movies where I keep my clothes on. My parents will be very proud. They're challenging characters, which I'm excited about.

Juno Temple

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

Juno Temple

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

Juno Temple

I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

Julia Ormond

Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance.

Julia Roberts

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Julia Quinn

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

Judd Hirsch

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?