Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Hart

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Kevin Hart

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Kenneth Burke

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Kelly Reilly

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

Kelly Reilly

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Kelly Lynch

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

Kelly Lynch

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

Keith Miller

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

Kathleen Quinlan

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

Ralph Steadman

At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.

Ralph Fiennes

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

Molly Quinn

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

Mira Sorvino

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Mike Judge

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Mike Judge

All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

Mike Judge

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Paula Patton

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

Paula Patton

Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.

Paula White

Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.

Peter Straub

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Peter Travers

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

Peter Thiel

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

Peter Fonda

You don't become the character

Peter Facinelli

When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.

Peter Brook

Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

Penelope Ann Miller

There are great characters on television.

Penelope Cruz

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

Penelope Cruz

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

Phil Foglio

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

Peter Sarsgaard

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

Peter Sarsgaard

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.