Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Schickel

He was such a vivid character. And it was a character he made up - this slightly ghoulish, heavy-set man who made up jokes on his TV series.

Wilmer Valderrama

I get to show all that disgusting, gross part of the industry. My character goes through a crazy process, where he thinks he's found part of the American dream, and has to do things that he wouldn't in a regular job. It's very impacting and really raw.

If the state hadn't purchased it, the character of the Ridge would have been lost. It is a great asset.

If the church is going to restore its character and credibility, it had better start taking some risks and speaking out on these issues. All of a sudden, Mahony is a hero ... I think it's an historic moment.

Jojo Moyes

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

Julie Kenner

If the characters are acting true to themselves, then that chemistry and suspense will flow.

Amanda Abbington

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

William Rehnquist

He was a man of character and dedication.

Jesse Williams

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

Pierce Brosnan

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

He will retire as commander, with full pension and with an honorable characterization of discharge, consistent with the character of his 20 years service,

Bennett Miller

He was the only choice. He was going to do it or we weren't going to do it. I've known Phil for 21 years now, and I feel I know him inside and out, and other than him being an incredible actor, a shaman-like actor, I will say that everything in this movie that gets revealed through this character are things that Phil knows.

Hugh Grant

He is a ridiculous character as well. He thinks he?s way cooler and more fascinating than he really is.

Jeffrey Wright

He has such an incredible range, ... He can be very, very subtle or he can be explosive, depending on what the character is, and he has an incredible human compassion thing that I read off him on-screen.

He had a great nose. He got a nose job and he's still a character actor.

Doug Armstrong

He doesn't shortchange the coach or his teammates on any of his shifts. He's a character player and a big part of this organization. This deal, we believe, is simply one step toward a long-term contract with Brenden.

He felt comfortable in trying some different shoes. Jerry's a fine young man. His character is impeccable.

Johnny Gray

He gets the utmost respect from everyone on the team. He's always on the ground, going for loose balls. He's bumping, he's battling. It definitely shows his character and how he wants to contribute to this team.

Thomas A. Edison

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

There is a kind of sweetness to Harry Dean that we didn't consider part of his character until Harry was saying the words.

John Adams

The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers

Greg Garcia

We try to find big, funny moments that are going to make people laugh and talk about the next day, but if we can get people emotionally invested in these characters as well, (they're) going to want to come back week after week,

Miley Cyrus

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

Miley Cyrus

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

Gerald Scarfe

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

We've been in a situation the last three weeks where if we lose, we are probably out of the tournament. That situation has really helped us. We showed a lot of character and kept going and going and going.

Charles Fillmore

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

Charles Evans Hughes

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Anna Friel

I also like the fact that the character isn't a typical footballer's wife, she doesn't need the bling and being at the forefront of everything.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Jonathan Davis

He was a guy who really liked Sinatra, stuck at this alternative-rock radio station, ... So we had the character record his own versions of these (alternative) songs. That was the original inspiration for Cheese.