Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Harland Williams

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

Hannah Murray

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

Courtney Ford

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

Billy Zane

I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is room for the unexpected.

Lou Pucci

My character wants his parents to have all the answers. But by the end, Justin realizes you don't need all the answers.

Drake Bell

My character on Drake & Josh is way too cool to be me. He's much smoother with the ladies.

Leslie Miller

My character is the sleazy secretary. It was a real struggle at first. Julia had to help me out.

Brent Spiner

My character has a distrust of government as Big Brother, ... He doesn't see why this should be kept secret from the public.

Jewel

My character had to be really earthy, really grounded, feminine and strong and confident,

Treat Williams

Most characters for actors like me are not very compelling because they're totally together and they don't have complicated lives.

Stan Sakai

Most of my female characters tend to be very strong characters.

Daniel Woodrell

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Mike followed a legendary predecessor and responded to it with character, graciousness and the determination to raise our program to the highest level.

Johnny Depp

Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or an inspiration for the character at all.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Salma Hayek

You have to embrace the character for everything that she was, without any judgement, and throw yourself completely, completely into it.

You knew it in September, not because we played so wonderfully the first week, but because of the character of the individuals that were working, trying, sweating and giving their all for the team.

Rachel McAdams

You know, I have some issues, ... But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Darren Star

When you're doing a single-camera show, it's more buying into a level of reality. I think a sitcom, a four-camera show, doesn't require that so much. I think with a film show, you just need the characters to grow.

Leon Washington

We had high expectations after the spring. It's frustrating but things happen on and off the field to players we counted on. But in life, mistakes happen. The first game will show the character of this team. We'll see if we can fight through the adversity.

Pau Gasol

We had a lot of characters and maybe they were too much for him in the end.

We had trouble during that first quarter. We had some decent shots that we didn't make. That has been our problem all year we have a quarter somewhere in the game that always hurts us. But the kids didn't quit, showing a lot of character on their part, and they kept plugging away at it.

We had to write character sketches. I was so intimidated.

Cynthia Breazeal

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

We've gotten ourselves into holes, but somehow and some way we've found a way out. That shows the character of these guys. They really never give up.

We've made every effort to create a world as close to the one in which our characters moved, ... a world that is coherent and convincing.

We're working up hill. We're proud of the way they played, their character, their intensity. They left everything out on the field, it was a very physical game. And I was proud of that part of it. I don't want them to be thrilled with leaving here because it was a loss. We have to keep that in perspective and get back to work on Monday.

O. Henry

We're very pleased with the performance, we showed a lot of character and heart out there after being 13-0 down.

Tanith Lee

Usually the characters lead, but sometimes you have such a strong theme that... they won't let you.

Radha Mitchell

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

Jason Terry

We're definitely pleased with the way we contained him. The defining character of a championship team is getting stops when you need to and that's something we've been working towards all year long.