Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Small

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Hope Davis

I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'

Jason Robert Brown

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

Heath Ledger

I felt this was such a refreshing story of love. For me, our characters were also complex, and to...really investigate this form of humanity and expression of love was an opportunity that I hadn't had.

JoBeth Williams

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I did a 10-page treatment, then started working on biographies for each of the characters. By the time I was finished writing those biographies, I understood completely where each of those characters was going.

Mavis Gallant

The first flash of fiction arrives without words. It consists of a fixed image like a slide or closer still a freeze frame showing characters in a simple situation....

Lily Tomlin

The film is very 'Nashville'-like in the sense that there are all of these characters who intermingle because we're on the same radio show,

Jill McCorkle

The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later.

The idea is to find colorful characters who have grown up in a different generation and put them in a kind of competitive situation with the kids of today.

Emilio Estevez

The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

Tilly Bagshawe

. . . the characters were simply people I imagined that were interesting to me.

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.

Robert Niro

The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters.

Geoff Johns

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters.

The guy in charge of the main characters is generally going to be a person of color.

The important part of the show is the repetitive nature of the dialogue of the two characters - how they make the same mistakes day after day.

Goran Visnjic

You want to have somebody like Elektra on your side, and it's one of the characters who is helping storytelling in the story also.

Jill McCorkle

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.

John Banville

All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at the same time, a novel is never autobiographical even if it describes the life of the author. Literary writing is a completely different medium.

Alan Ball

The die-hard fans of this show really felt a connection to these characters and it was upsetting to them when he died,

Michael Sheen

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

Helen Fielding

Am I seeing the characters of the original diary or the characters from the film?

Andrea Roth

All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.

Daniel Kim

All these characters have layers, secrets inside of them. It was difficult, but the thing that kept me hopeful was my trust in the producers.

Lucinda Williams

The man I lived with is a Christian, so I would talk to him about it. What would this person do in the Bible? What's the story around this person? Generally, when people talk about characters in the Bible, there's one thing they're known for, like Job.

Janina Gavankar

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

David Cronenberg

You could say it's a Hollywood film because the characters are agents, actors and managers, but it is not a satire like The Player.

Angelina Jolie

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.