Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tao Lin

I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .

Tao Lin

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to them as immoral before.

Suzy Kassem

Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.

Swami Vivekananda

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Swami Vivekananda

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

Swami Vivekananda

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Tony Scott

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

Tony Scott

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

Toni Trucks

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Toni Servillo

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.

Tony Abbott

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

Thurgood Marshall

Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

Thorstein Veblen

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed in response to a given stimulus will necessarily affect the character of the response made to other stimuli. A modification of human nature at any one point is a modification of human nature as a whole.

Thucydides

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.

Robert A. Cook

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

Rick Baker

When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.

Tim Roth

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Tim Roth

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Tim Roth

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Tillie Olsen

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

Tila Tequila

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.

Tilda Swinton

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Tilda Swinton

I mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Steven Strogatz

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Steven Soderbergh

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.

Steven Soderbergh

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

Steven Soderbergh

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

Steven Spielberg

I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

Steven Spielberg

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.

Steven Spielberg

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things....

Regina King

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.