Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judd Apatow

Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.

Judd Apatow

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

Joseph Pulitzer

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

Nell Freudenberger

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

Nell Freudenberger

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

Neil Tennant

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

Neill Blomkamp

'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

Neil Young

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Rachel McAdams

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

R. Lee Ermey

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

R. Lee Ermey

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

Nic Pizzolatto

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

Nic Pizzolatto

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

Nic Pizzolatto

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

Nia Long

I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.

Nia Long

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

Nia Long

There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Niccolo Machiavelli

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Noah Hathaway

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

Noah Hawley

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

Noah Hawley

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Noah Webster

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Noah Webster

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Noam Chomsky

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Mike Myers

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

Mike Myers

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.

Mike Myers

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Mike Myers

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.