Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Odom

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Sally Kellerman

That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

That's how we're made this year. We're a team, like an NFL team, that's going to utilize our personnel, that's going to use all the characters in our offense.

This version of the enchanting fairy tale features an expanded script with eight original songs. The kids have created some original characters as well.

Richard Madden

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

Joel Kinnaman

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.

Jewel Staite

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

Matthew McConaughey

I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.

Seth Numrich

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Nicholas Sparks

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. I keep it vague.

Jennifer Haigh

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

Jane Green

I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.

Andrew-Lee Potts

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

Bill Clinton

it would have been impossible for characters to go to parties and not meet Clinton.

Jesse Plemons

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Robert Englund

What's great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

Kimberly Willis Holt

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Kim Edwards

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

John Burnside

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

Chris Crutcher

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

Harvey Keitel

I read Get Shorty and Be Cool. He's a wonderful writer. He has his ear and his pen on the pulse of these kinds of characters he's writing about.

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.

James Frain

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.