Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jojo Moyes

Don't set pen to paper until you know your main characters inside out. Create files detailing their appearances, likes, dislikes, and personal background. You may not use all the information, but it is a crucial step in planning your story.

Eugene Levy

And we find people who can improvise in character and create a character that is totally tangible and real and still get laughs, but you're getting laughs totally within the confines of your character.

And we've talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. He's never smoked, he's not a drinker, he's not a party animal. He's just a regular kid who likes to hang out with his friends. He'd rather be at a comedy club or something. No, he's learned some lessons. I don't expect there to be any more trouble out of him. The things that happened were totally out of character for him, totally out of character.

Emily is a fantastic leader. She has been an honor to coach these past three years and I am very proud of her as she leads this team into the 2006 spring dual season. Our younger players are very fortunate to have someone of Emily's character to look up to.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.

There's a lot of things that go into the equation in formulating a team, the way the pieces fit and complement each other. Character has always been an important issue with me. It goes hand in hand with chemistry.

Anna Faris

There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especially in comedies.

Jack Falahee

A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.

Jennifer Finnigan

As much as I loved playing that character (on 'Committed'), it did scare me if that show had a long run that people would typecast me as a slightly crazy, ditzy character,

Robert Geathers

All of us are very athletic. The guys, I can say, are all great character guys. We want to win and want to be the best.

Donna Mills

Abby would do things that weren't very ethical, but she was never evil. She had a humanity that characters like her on the other soaps didn't have.

It's been really rough, but it shows you the character of the team to be able to still come to practice every day and give 100 percent. And I think that's going to show up on the court when we do play.

Brian Dawkins

This has been a character year for us.

They showed a lot of heart. They stuck some huge threes the second half. I give a lot of credit to them. They showed a lot of character coming back.

They showed a lot of character and a lot of heart. They played hard to the last whistle.

Lewis Carroll

They told me you had been to her, / And mentioned me to him: / She gave me a good character, / But said I could not swim.

They're well coached, they've got good character guys and they've got good talent. I see some similarities to us, but I don't know about well coached.

They take losses pretty hard, and they want to rebound well. That's the sign of a good character team, that they don't lose back-to-back.

Chris Carpenter

It's unacceptable no matter where we are in the season. It was very out of character for me, it made me want to puke.

Chloe Sevigny

It's not really about disco. It's about these characters that the movie revolves around and their relationships with each other and it's more about the dialogue.

Sasha Cohen

It's not like it would be a stretch, and hopefully I'll get to be funny. There are a lot of characters in skating.

Danny Aiello

For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.

For many people in the game guilds, the idea of paying for your character is verboten.

Alice McDermott

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

Tom Selleck

For a character with longevity, you have to have that.

Scott Bakula

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.

Joe Gibbs

It's not Xs and Os. It's people and character and making great plays, ... It's more of a personal thing. It's the character. It's the fight - because up here most of the guys who get to this level are obviously talented.

This is not the movies. There is no Tommy Lee Jones character who comes in and takes charge of everything.

This is something out of the ordinary that is total out of character for him.

Mike Scioscia

This game was out of the blue, ... Everything we could have messed up, we messed up out there. It was so out of character for us.

Conan O'Brien

This cowardly, back-tracking, fast-talking, slick character, to me, is probably the most imitated character and persona that's in comedy.

Todd Solondz

This driving need is what is so defining of her and is, in a sense, what makes her a palindrome, ... Loosely, metaphorically speaking, a palindrome describes that part of ourselves that is immutable and that resists, so that for all the metamorphoses, physical and otherwise, that we see over the course of the film, the character remains a constant.