Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Douglas

My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.

Michael Emerson

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Michael B. Jordan

I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.

Randy Quaid

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Randy Newman

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

Ralph Lauren

When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

Eric Hoffer

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Eric Hoffer

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Eric Hoffer

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Eric Balfour

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Eric Bana

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

Eric Bana

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

Eric Bana

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

Eric Bana

Definitely the script because you want to be part of an interesting story, you want your character to be a challenge, then comes the director. But essentially it's the script first and whether it's a character that you think you can do.

Eric Bana

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

Eric Bana

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

Emraan Hashmi

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

The idea is to find colorful characters who have grown up in a different generation and put them in a kind of competitive situation with the kids of today.

Emilio Estevez

The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

Jason Statham

You don't have to think as hard about the character because you've already established the little details that are needed. This is something we did with Luc before ... and that's part of the fun, to create the character and the little nuances that make him different than the usual guy. We didn't have to go through any of that this time.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

Emmy Rossum

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

Emmy Rossum

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

James F. Cooper

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

James F. Cooper

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

James F. Cooper

The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.

James F. Cooper

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

James Franco

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

James Franco

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

James Cook

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

James Allen

The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.

James Allen

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.