Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Beattie

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

Anjelica Huston

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

Anjelica Huston

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

Andrei Tarkovsky

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a 'mise en scène' turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept however original it may be, then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.

Andrei Tarkovsky

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

Chuck Palahniuk

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

Chuck Leavell

Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.

Chuck Jones

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Chuck Jones

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

Chuck Jones

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Chuck Berry

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Christopher Nolan

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.

Christopher Reeve

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

Christopher Reeve

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

Christopher Walken

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

Christopher Walken

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

Christopher Paolini

Characters are born from necessity.

Christopher Meloni

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Anson Jones

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Annie Proulx

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

Ansel Adams

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

Ann-Margret

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Angie Harmon

I think the thing that made this stand out the most was just the fact that there's a lot more character to these characters. We see their back stories and we see their present situations, and that was a lot more interesting than just the regular procedural with four heads standing around a body, spelling it out for you. It's a lot more of a roller coaster ride.

Angelina Jolie

I like to hide behind the characters I play.

Angelina Jolie

I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.

Angelina Jolie

Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

Angelina Jolie

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Andreas Katsulas

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

Amos Oz

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.

Amy Adams

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

Amy Adams

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Amos Bronson Alcott

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.