Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

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.

Sylvester Stallone

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

Sylvester Stallone

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

Sylvester Stallone

The character of Rocky was built on the idea that he was chosen to do something. That's why the first image in Rocky is the picture of Christ.

Suzanne Vega

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Susan Sontag

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Susan Sontag

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

Scott Westerfeld

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

Ray Nitschke

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.