Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

Ashley Tisdale

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

Ashley Tisdale

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

Ashton Kutcher

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

Ashton Kutcher

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Aron Ralston

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Anton Corbijn

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

Anton Corbijn

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Joshua Sasse

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

Colleen McCullough

I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances." ()

I will protect the unitary character of the country,

Gina Rodriguez

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Brent Spiner

I think they have developed the character very nicely and it's gone exactly as it was planned to happen.

It is a thankless part. But having Tommy play Victor has made me re-evaluate the character.

Joseph J. Ellis

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

I think there has to be a frank discussion on what the plans are, how they fit with the current zoning laws and what impact they might have on the character of Roosevelt,

Julian Fellowes

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

Jess just made a huge drive. I'm so proud of her, because she had some turnovers. That's a lot of guts and a lot of character on her part.

Jerome is the total package. He has great character and he's a wonderful human being who is a self-motivated leader with an infectious, positive outlook on life.

Jayson has turned his life around. He defines the character we were trying to get for our team. When we needed a hit of personality -- when we were too nondescript, a suburban team without urban sizzle -- Jayson jumped in and created a persona for us.

Joseph Bruchac

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

Steven Levitan

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

Antoine Rivarol

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Antoine Fuqua

OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

Bill Vaughan

A nation has character only when it is free.

Bill Vaughan

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Bill Vaughan

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

The actors are in character. They don't talk about the character; they talk as the character. It's really an interesting effect.

Jason Moore

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

Marguerite Young

The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed herself to be the denuded character every person would be if confronted with the loss of their illusions as she was.

That was as much character as we've shown (this season).

Louis Orr

That was the second game of the season. Playing a team like Duke the second game of the season, that's something that's really hard to simulate. We've grown a lot, which is a good thing. That's 15, 16 games since then, we've matured as a team. We've had a lot of close games and our character and confidence have grown.

That's too bad. I think this is a quality team with a lot of character ... from the top down.