Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Kanaly

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Earle

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Steve Coogan

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Steve Coogan

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Stephen Sommers

I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

Stephen Root

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Stephen Root

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

Stephen Root

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Stephen Sondheim

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

Stephen Sondheim

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

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

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.

W. H. Auden

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.