Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Regina King

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

Regina King

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

Raymond Burr

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

Tom Selleck

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

Tom Selleck

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

Tom Selleck

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

Tom Johnson

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

Tom Hollander

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

Tom Hooper

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Tom Jones

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Hiddleston

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

Tom Hiddleston

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

Toni Morrison

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

Tommy Franks

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.