Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carla Gugino

One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.

Blair Underwood

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

Blake Lively

For me, I really feel like a character when I look like them.

Blaise Pascal

A jester, a bad character.

Billy Boyd

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

Billie Jean King

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.

Billy Bob Thornton

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

Billy Bob Thornton

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Billy Bob Thornton

Every character I play is me, always has been.

Billy Bob Thornton

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Billy Bob Thornton

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Billy Bob Thornton

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Billy Bob Thornton

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Bill Hader

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Bill Hybels

Our conduct will never change God's character.

Kevin Zegers

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

Chris Farley

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

Diane Johnson

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Diane Kruger

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much challenge and so much time with it. I think it is a great outlet for an actress because you really have 13 hours to bring a character to life, which is so much more than with film, and you have the luxury of time to tell a story and to really color a character.

Diane Kruger

Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more.

Dennis Quaid

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Dennis Quaid

I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.

Dennis Prager

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

Dennis Prager

Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

Dennis Prager

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

Dennis Prager

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

Dennis Prager

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Dennis Prager

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Dennis Prager

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

Dennis Farina

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Dennis Farina

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.