Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Nadia Bjorlin

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

N. T. Wright

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

Morris Chestnut

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Morris Chestnut

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

Monica Keena

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

Monique Coleman

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

Monique Coleman

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

Monica Potter

There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.

Miranda Lambert

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

Miranda July

Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?

Miranda July

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic.

Miranda July

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

Millicent Fawcett

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

Milla Jovovich

I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.

Milla Jovovich

When I did The Fifth Element [1997], it was like, "Oh my goodness, who is this character?" I loved doing Resident Evil, but Resident Evil is Resident Evil with or without me. It's an entity of its own. It's not like Milla made Resident Evil.

Milla Jovovich

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Milla Jovovich

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

Milla Jovovich

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

Miles Teller

I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.

Miles Teller

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

Miles Teller

I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].

Miles Teller

I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I don't know, usually the older you get you get characters with more responsibility. Each one is different, there are certain movies that when the guy starts you pretty much come with that character on page one and then you see their growth, whereas other guys a lot has happened before that movie starts and you have to come in with something.

Mike Mills

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

Mignon McLaughlin

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Mignon McLaughlin

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Mignon McLaughlin

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Johnny Galecki

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

Johnny Galecki

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

John Wooden

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

John Wooden

Be more interested in character than reputation

John Wooden

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

John Wooden

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.