Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Zettel

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.

Sarah Kay

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

Sara Sheridan

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Sara Sheridan

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

Sara Sheridan

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Santino Fontana

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.

Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

Sanaa Lathan

I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.

Sanaa Lathan

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

Samuel Johnson

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Samuel Johnson

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

Sarah Steele

I think the ultimate goal is that when we're off-stage, we know everything our character is thinking. Hopefully when we are on-stage, our thoughts are our character's thoughts because we really know that much about them.

Sarah Shahi

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

Sarah Paulson

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

Vittorio Gassman

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Ving Rhames

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

Vincent Piazza

Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.

William Howard Taft

There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

Willard Gaylin

We are what we seem to be.

Washington Irving

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Washington Irving

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

Washington Irving

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

Washington Irving

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

Washington Irving

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

Walter Legge

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.