Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Sondheim

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

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.

Peter Jackson

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Peter Jackson

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.

Peter Jackson

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Pete Postlethwaite

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

Pete Hamill

The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself behind, along with the mechanics, and disappear into the lives of my characters.

Pearl Cleage

When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

Pedro Almodovar

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.

Pedro Almodovar

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

Pedro Almodovar

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.

Piers Anthony

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Phyllis Bottome

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

Philip Pullman

The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It shows where your moral center is. So you are in the message business whether you like it or not.