Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Nolte

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

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.

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.

Jonathan Stroud

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes.

Daniel Sharman

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that's wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Nicki Minaj

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

Joel Kinnaman

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for in characters: ones that have a wide range of expression.

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.

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.

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.

It's a wonderful way to introduce children to the magic of live theater, with characters they can easily identify with.

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.

They've had to work at being mean to each other. Two of the characters are at each other throughout the show. It's sadly realistic.

Geena Davis

It made perfect sense to me that I would play this part, ... I have always been interested in roles that are gonna be challenging for me - but also, characters that other women can identify with.

Mike White

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

It's funny, how you look at so many priests who are characters when you're growing up; then one day you find you're a character yourself,

Siri Hustvedt

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

It's set in high school, so it's a different demographic we're going for. You look at those characters and you go, 'What would they be like 10 or 15 years earlier than the characters you saw in the first one?

Shaun Pollock

It's always good to have a partner who is full of energy, and who you can see is giving it 110 percent all the time. You need those kind of characters in a side.

Robin McLeavy

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.