Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was a determined kid with a lot of character, even then.

Leonard Maltin

He created an indelible character in Chester. Chester is a good hearted, simple-minded guy. That's why he's such a likable character.

He definitely has some character to him. Don't get me wrong, when he gets out here, he works.

He is very unselfish and a great shooter. He has great character and will fit in with our team for three years.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Tatiana Maslany

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

Jonathan Jackson

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'

Alice McDermott

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

Stephen Merchant

If we put the real Ricky on screen, with all his neuroses, it'd be worse than (his character on The Office) David Brent. People would hate him.

We talked at halftime about character, composure and about this being a season-defining game for us. When I said that, I hoped we'd win.

When he says he loves you, it's genuine. He's a man of character. He's genuine. He's my hero.

Walter Mosley

What I say to myself is, 'I really love these characters and I want to make them as real in the world as I can,'

What impresses me about the films this year is how many seem to be about a kind of quiet strength shown by characters in situations that often seem extremely difficult if not impossible to bear.

Callie Khouri

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

Tim LaHaye

We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.

We told our kids at halftime that football is a game of peaks and valleys. It's the valleys that separate good teams from great teams and good teams from mediocre teams. I think our kids showed character and responded when we needed them to.

We are extremely fortunate to have Nick join our staff. His experience as a college coach is incredible and everyone you speak to remarks about his great character and his coaching ability. We're getting a great person and a great coach.

We can come out and win third. Right now you may not think of it as much, but down the road you'll see it as a positive. It will be a test of character playing that game.

Bill Graham

To generations of Canadians, Smokey stood for courage and resolve at a time of great need, a testiment to his tremendous strength of character and his commitment to this country.

To compare, it would be similar to read the lowest line on the character chart at the eye doctor from a distance of three kilometers (two miles).

Carroll O'Connor

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Carrot Top

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

Carroll Quigley

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

Carol Channing

Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Burnett

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Carl Schurz

I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.

Alan Lightman

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

Alan Lightman

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

Alan Cumming

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

Alan Dershowitz

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.