Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hope Davis

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

Horace Bushnell

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

Horace Bushnell

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Holliday Grainger

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

Holliday Grainger

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

Holt McCallany

You have to really think about what kind of guy the character is and decide on a style that works, that complements my physicality and that's going to be believable, but also be compelling for the audience and for the camera.

Holt McCallany

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Ian McShane

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

Ian McShane

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Ian Rankin

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

Ian Mckellen

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, 'do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were really landed on it.'

Ian Mckellen

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

Ian Mckellen

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Iain Banks

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

Hugh Grant

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

Hrithik Roshan

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Howard Zinn

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

Howard Hawks

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

Howard Hawks

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

Howard Gordon

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

Howard Gordon

When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.

Howard Gordon

What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.

Howard Nemerov

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

I am very proud of this team and what they accomplished this year. The character that these guys showed working hard every day in practice and then with that drive to the playoffs was great.

Rita Volk

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

Campbell Scott

I am a character actor. I'm not a presence actor. And those exist all over the place.

I am not going to put her character on trial; she did nothing wrong.

Kevin Allen

I am proud of the character of my kids. They maintained a high level of character throughout the second half.

Tom Stoppard

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.

Corey Reynolds

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't want to be standing here next year talking about the character of the team. I want to be talking about winning and the playoffs.

I don't think we feel like we're ever out of a game. We have the confidence and the character guys that can get things done when the game is on the line and it's been a different guy every time.

He's one of the coolest characters in the business. Everybody here is a kid at heart, but he just shows it.