Famous Quotes & Sayings

Summer Glau

Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really be expressive through my physical self, and that was just a comfortable way for me to start experimenting with how to get my character across.

Summer Glau

You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.

Sue Grafton

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

Sue Grafton

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Sue Monk Kidd

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Steven Zaillian

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

Steven Yeun

Yeah, it's scary. During filming, it wasn't just jitters from being the newer guy there or the greenest guy there. It was also fear of not messing up such an important character.

Steven Yeun

I'm glad that people have responded well to it, so far. I'm thankful for that. But, I'm also excited now that I have a better grasp of this character than I did before. I want to take it even further and really explore who Glenn is.

Ricky Schroder

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.

Ricky Williams

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

Richard Shepard

For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

Richard Steele

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Richard Steele

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

Richard Steele

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Richard Hell

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

Richard Hammond

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

Richard Armitage

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Richard Armitage

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

Red Skelton

Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.

Samuel Adams

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

Samuel Adams

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

T. Harv Eker

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share a secret with you that few people know: the fastest way to get rich and stay rich is to work on developing you! The idea is to grow yourself into a successful person. Again, your outer world is merely a reflection of your inner world. You are the root; your results are the fruits.

T. Harv Eker

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

T. D. Jakes

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

T. S. Eliot

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Sydney J. Harris

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Sydney J. Harris

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

Sylvester Stallone

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

Sylvester Stallone

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

Sylvester Stallone

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Sylvester Stallone

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Sylvester Stallone

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

Sylvester Stallone

I've always boxed a certain way. But with Rocky, the character himself had to be kind of awkward. So I had to learn to fight that way.