Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a collaboration of two unexpected companies -- Disney with their rich heritage of characters and Hysteric because of their strong fashion and trend-setting reputation.

It's very stressful because there is such a short period for rehearsals. It allows us to become a very close-knit group very quickly, and that shows with the characters on stage. It's a real ensemble.

It's vital for teens to see gay characters on television, ... When a gay teen in Iowa sees Jack on 'Dawson's Creek' portrayed as loved, talented and accepted, it sends a strong message that he can be those things, as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Art Alexakis

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

The vast majority of these characters are portrayed as stolid, stalwart men who face various crises with a great deal of fortitude and courage. I think that will play a role: Can the woman do it, or is she compensating for some kind of emotional or sexual drive?

They are just so much fun, and you can do a lot with them. The characters are funny as they are written anyway, and with this enthusiastic young cast, they become these charming, lively entities that are telling the story quite beautifully.

Jeremy Northam

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

Pedro Almodovar

There's something about uninterrupted singing that just doesn't work for me, because at some point, I need my characters to talk. Without meaning to offend anyone, a musical like 'Les Miserables' would be the last thing I'd ever be interested in.

Dean Young

There's going to be this juxtaposition of the comic strip characters you're never going to see again,

Jill Paton Walsh

There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been.

Jennifer Haigh

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

They're happy to see the characters that they know from television and 'The Big Wish' movie.

Aidan Gillen

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Ruth Glick

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.

Shailene Woodley

I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.

O. J. Simpson

I prefer movies. I think it's nice to go to difference characters and kinda jump around. Maybe one day I'll do a TV show again.

David Bergen

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

Melissa McCarthy

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Adan Canto

In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

Chris Crutcher

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about,

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

Sherwood Schwartz

I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners.

Graham Moore

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.

James Norton

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

I didn't find any temporal paradoxes that I couldn't handle, ... It's a very enjoyable thing to do, to jump time and play around with characters you've already established.

Nick Nolte

because there are a lot of characters that aren't followed through.

Jesmyn Ward

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

Hugh Jackman

He's that reluctant hero, and he's a fairly classic version of it. He reminds me of characters I always liked, Mad Max, Dirty Harry, Han Solo, where there's more going on than what they're letting on.

Matt Barr

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Jeff Kinney

I'm very excited to see the wonderful 2-D characters in Poptropica come to life in the form of 3-D toys. When I first held the characters in my hands, it felt like magic. I'm excited for kids to have the same feeling!

Gena Rowlands

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.