Famous Quotes & Sayings

Verne Troyer

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

Verne Troyer

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

Vera Brittain

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Vera Farmiga

Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters.

Vera Farmiga

I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

Vera Farmiga

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

Vera Farmiga

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Vera Farmiga

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

Vera Farmiga

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Vera Farmiga

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Vance Packard

New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.

Vanessa Hudgens

I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres out there to do, so many different characters to play, so many different amazing actors and directors to work with. I'm just following my gut, and if it's speaking to me, then I'm doing it.

Vanessa Hudgens

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

Valerie Harper

In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

Ugo Betti

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

Uma Thurman

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Uma Thurman

It's one of the things that weirdly I always used to like about my job: that expressing the emotions of a writer or someone creative and breathing empathy and life into a character people can then identify with, that they'd feel less alone.

Ulysses S. Grant

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Umberto Eco

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Umberto Eco

I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

Umberto Eco

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

Rodrigo Santoro

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

Robin Wasserman

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

Robin Williams

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Trenton Lee Stewart

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

Trenton Lee Stewart

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Tracey Ullman

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Tracey Ullman

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

Tracey Ullman

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Topher Grace

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

Topher Grace

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

Steve Waugh

He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

Steve Zahn

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.