Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Oliphant

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Margaret Mahy

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

Margaret Mahy

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Margaret Mahy

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Margaret Mahy

In a way, the characters often do take over.

Michael Jackson

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

Michael Jackson

I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.

Michael Jackson

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

Mia Maestro

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

Mia Kirshner

The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

Melissa George

No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.

Melanie Lynskey

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

Melanie Laurent

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Melanie Laurent

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

Melissa Leo

The climate informs the character.

Melissa Joan Hart

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

Michael Zaslow

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Michel de Montaigne

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Michael Schudson

Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

Michael Schur

I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.

Michael Schur

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

Michael Rooker

If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

Michael Rooker

I was pretty confident that I'd be playing something, if James Gunn could convince Marvel Studios and Disney to cast me. He's involved with the casting too, but if he could convince them to go along with him and agree with getting me on the roster, then yeah, I would have voiced Groot. Not a problem. Groot is an awesome character.

Michael Rooker

Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.

Michael Richards

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Michael Rapaport

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

Michael Novak

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Markus Zusak

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

Mikhail Bakunin

...one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion ... [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character

Maria Jeritza

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

Maria Doyle Kennedy

I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

Maria Menounos

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Maria Bamford

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.