Famous Quotes & Sayings

We showed a lot of character to come right back, but in the second half we were poor defensively. We defended poorly on two set pieces and a cross, and we suffered the consequences. Credit Richmond.

We showed a lot of character in those final minutes. It was great effort and energy. It was a sense of urgency at that point, a huge sense of urgency, and we were able to capitalize.

We showed a lot of character here today. People are stepping up when they are called upon and that is the type of effort that we are going to need to stay in this league.

Adam Foote

We showed a lot of character coming back tonight. This team really wants to win and if we can put away a few mistakes it's going to make things a lot easier.

Mike Woodson

We showed a lot of character coming back from 12 down. I thought Iverson was tremendous tonight. He created so many problems for us, but I like that we found a way to overcome that and get the win. We had a number of guys step up in the fourth quarter.

We showed a lot of character, but it's very disappointing to come all the way back like that and still lose. That's a game we should have won. I will say that there's a lot of teams who might have packed it in when they were down by four goals, but we didn't.

We showed a lot of character after the loss Wednesday and I expected nothing less.

Amandla Stenberg

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

Steven Strait

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Sara Shepard

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Harrison Ford

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

Gabriel Byrne

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Geena Davis

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Idina Menzel

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

Ian Mckellen

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

Frank Oz

What I remember most about the 'Road' movies is my enjoyment at watching the two characters sparring with each other. But more important than that was my feeling that Hope and Crosby were enjoying the sparring, too.

Chris Pine

It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

Emily Perkins

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.

Elisabeth Moss

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

Erik Qualman

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Elliot Cowan

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

Elizabeth Meriwether

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

Elizabeth McCracken

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

Elmore Leonard

If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don't have a trade. I don't teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them.

Michelle Fairley

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

Paula Malcomson

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

Francine Rivers

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

Anne Lamott

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

Anne Lamott

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Albert Hofmann

The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.

Albert J. Nock

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.