Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

I think the place of Christian values in the world will in many ways depend on the character of Orthodox-Catholic relations, at least on the European continent.

Keira Knightley

I thought, God, it's a strong person who says, 'Yes, you can take my name and you can do with it what you want,' ... I wanted to create a character who would be able to say that, because I know that I wouldn't.

I thought Brandon struggled. Real character shows when a guy struggles, sits, cheers for his team, and then gets back out there and delivers.

Dan Monson

I think you get in these games and you really see who your team is and what their character is.

John Crowley

I think the fact that it's character driven meant that however technically complicated it got on set, I was always directing actors.

Mark Hamill

I think theatre has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

I think that the past three and a half weeks, we showed a lot of character,

Jim Jeffords

It is clear Judge Roberts has the necessary legal experience and character to be the chief justice.

Kirsten Dunst

I was comfortable with the words, ... Most times I find myself trying to rewrite parts of my character, but not this time.

Robin Williams

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence. The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

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,

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.

Ariel Sharon

undermine the character of the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

William Wilberforce

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

Carl Jung

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

We have time for them to excel. Students here don't worry about peer pressure. Parents don't have to worry about what kind of stuff (the pupils) are going to hear or see. The moral character here is high.

Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

Kristan Higgins

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.

I thought we held it together pretty well. We also showed some character by sticking with it and winning the match.

Andy Scott

I thought the last two years we probably would have lost this ballgame. I'm proud of our character that we were able to hang tough and pull out the victory.