Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heath Ledger

I was really lucky that my character was uncomfortable with it and knew it too. So I could use my own level of discomfort, because it was new and strange for me, and that worked for me.

Andy Reid

I was proud of the coaches and the adjustments they made. I was proud of the character the players showed. They could have easily gone in the tank and they didn't do that. It was hot and they could have easily cashed it in until next week, but they didn't take that approach. They battled through and were tired. They pushed each other and trusted the adjustments the coaches made.

I was playing out of character. I wasn't playing to my strengths. Now I'm just playing with a little more confidence. I've just got to do what I do.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Orison Swett Marden

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.

Zach Woods

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Vicky McClure

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

You have some frame of reference with the characters that actually lived the history. And when they intermingle with the fictional characters, it really places you in the time period.

Joss Whedon

We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series to an extent. Neither of them are really a template. I've never loved the comics and I didn't watch the television series, but I loved the character very much.

Who can stay together over two months is really a key thing. One thing we do have is solid guys, so when you get smacked and things aren't going good, you can rely on the character of these guys.

We were very fortunate. Their quarterback went down and he can throw the ball. We had a lot of problems with cramps and we were relying on role players who don't get a lot of reps. This was a test of their character we've developed over the years.

We were able to come back today. We showed a lot of character and stayed poised and didn't get down, ... But we have to come in next week and try to do better.

We're all hyper, so that's why the characters are so lively.

Jen Lancaster

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

John Lasseter

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

Henry David Thoreau

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Sprague Grayden

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

Dilshad Vadsaria

I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.

Lauren Graham

I struggled with the idea that this character, the parent, would ... stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort.

Mark Brunell

To win five in a row says a lot about this football team, its character and how we stuck together.

We're disappointed with the outcome, but we showed great character keeping the game close on the road when we could have folded several times.

John Heider

We think that the character is actually modeled after Noel Coward himself. It's a play about a very witty man leading his life in the theater.

This will test our character now because the loss puts us out of the playoffs.

We didn't know he was going to play until he showed up. To go for four straight titles, yeah, it's a great accomplishment, but nobody was going to pressure him to do anything. That's the kind of character he has, to go out there and give it everything he has in that kind of condition.

We had some divisiveness in the locker room, so we had to shake up what was in the shoebox. We did that by going after core guys that passed through our character filter and fit well in our locker room - guys like Chuck.

We wanted a half-hour comedy that was not joke-driven in the traditional sense. You're laughing because you recognize the characters as people you're possibly related to yourself.

We live for this moment. This is what coaching is all about. When your back is to the wall, that's when character is revealed.

Antonya Nelson

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

Antonya Nelson

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

Abhishek Bachchan

When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

Gillian Anderson

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

Joanne Harris

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Joan Allen

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.