Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Adam Brody

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Ace Frehley

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Ani Difranco

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands

Amy Poehler

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Amy Poehler

I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".

Ally Carter

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

Clay Shirky

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Anna Quindlen

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Cindy Margolis

The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

Cicely Tyson

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Chuck Yeager

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Cindy Crawford

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

Cillian Murphy

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

Alfie Kohn

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Angela Merkel

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.

P. G. Wodehouse

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Paul Hawken

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

Pat Conroy

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

Juno Temple

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

Kristin Hannah

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.