Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timur Bekmambetov

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

Timur Bekmambetov

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.

Timur Bekmambetov

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

Stephen Fry

Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

St. Jerome

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

St. Jerome

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Sri Aurobindo

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Sri Chinmoy

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

Sri Chinmoy

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

Sri Chinmoy

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

Sri Chinmoy

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.

Sri Chinmoy

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

Sri Chinmoy

Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal.

Sophia Myles

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

Sonia Braga

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

Sonia Rykiel

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Ruth Buzzi

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

Roger Craig Smith

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Sam Shepard

I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Rupert Sanders

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

Rupert Sanders

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Rupert Murdoch

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

Rush Limbaugh

Donald Trump has been mischaracterized, misdiagnosed, his character has been assaulted from the get-go by both Republicans and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Rush Limbaugh

At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.

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.

Ray Stevenson

When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

Ray Stevenson

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

Ray Stevenson

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.

Ray Stevenson

Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

Ray Romano

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

Ray Lewis

Adversity defines true character.

Rashida Jones

There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.