Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Hill

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

Jonah Hill

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

Jon Stewart

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.

Joyce Carol Oates

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

Joyce Carol Oates

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

Joyce Carol Oates

My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

Joyce Carol Oates

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.

Joyce Carol Oates

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

Katee Sackhoff

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

Katee Sackhoff

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.

Katee Sackhoff

There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

Katee Sackhoff

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

Katey Sagal

I've never played a character that would sing.

Katey Sagal

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Kate Winslet

Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

Kate Winslet

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

Kate Winslet

I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.

Kate Winslet

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

Kate Winslet

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

Kate Beckinsale

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

Justin Zackham

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Julie Benz

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Julie Benz

The great thing about working on a genre show is that you can basically have a season finale where every character is left destroyed, and then hit the reset button and come back for the next season.

Julie Benz

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

Julie Bowen

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Richard Dawkins

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Richard Whately

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

Richard Whately

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

Richelle Mead

It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

Richard Ayoade

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

Reshma Shetty

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.