Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacki Weaver

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

Jacki Weaver

You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

Jackie Collins

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

Jackie Collins

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

James Freeman Clarke

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

James Gandolfini

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

James Gandolfini

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

James Gandolfini

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

James Gandolfini

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

James Frey

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

J. William Fulbright

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Isaac Asimov

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

Irene Dunne

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

Immanuel Kant

In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

Immanuel Kant

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Immanuel Kant

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

Jill Scott

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

Jessica Chastain

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

Jessica Chastain

I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

Jessica Chastain

To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.

Jessica Chastain

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.

Jessica Lange

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Jessica Lange

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Jerry Hall

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Jeremy Bulloch

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

Jeremy Collier

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Jeremy Bentham

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Jennifer Ellison

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.