Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Karl Jaspers

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Karl Kraus

Talent is often a defect in character.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty with character ages better than perfection

Julius Rosenwald

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly the same proportion as persons in all other walks of life do.

Pamela Anderson

I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

Pamela Anderson

I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.

Pamela Anderson

I laugh when I end up on the worst-dressed lists. I'm not trying to be fashionable. I know I'm kind of a cartoon character. Do people honestly think I'm wearing a kafkan in order to be fashionable?

Otto Weininger

In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.

Osric Chau

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom. How does one get bored of life?

Oscar Isaac

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

Kathryn Hahn

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.

Kathryn Hahn

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

Kara Hayward

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

Kara Hayward

You have to find out how to become the character.

Kanye West

Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?

June Carter Cash

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Juliet Landau

I enjoy working on new, different types of characters. Playing a range is what excites me.

Julie Taymor

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

Julie Walters

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

Julie Walters

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

Julian McMahon

I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.

Julian McMahon

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

Judy Greer

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

Margot Robbie

Scent has become a way for me to differentiate characters.

Margot Robbie

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

Maria Mitchell

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Maria Semple

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.

Paul Tillich

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

Paul Tillich

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Paul Tillich

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

Paul Kagame

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.