Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Casper

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Billy Crudup

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

Billy Campbell

The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.

Billy Campbell

I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

Billy Crystal

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

Billy Collins

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.

Billy Collins

You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than anyone else on earth, but is not the equivalent to you.

Billy Corgan

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

Boris Yeltsin

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation

Boman Irani

I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.

Bruce Davison

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

Bruce Davison

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Bridget Regan

I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.

Bridget Regan

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

Bridget Regan

It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it!

Bridget Riley

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

Bridgit Mendler

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

Bridgit Mendler

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

Bridgit Mendler

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

Brie Larson

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Brigham Young

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Brendan Sexton III

I mean, I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

Brendan Gleeson

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

Brendon Burchard

Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.

Bruce Springsteen

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

Brian Tracy

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Brian Tracy

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

Brian Tracy

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Brian Tracy

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

Brian Henson

And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

Brian Henson

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.

Brian K. Vaughan

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

Brendan Fletcher

Into The Wild had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and Unforgiven is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.