Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jason Shirey

It was a long day. There was a lot of character to come back. To lose 3-2 and not lay down ù these kids have done stuff like this in summer league.

Brandon Sanderson

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Azim Premji

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Brad Falchuk

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Charles R. Swindoll

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

Charles Darwin

The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is no explanation. It has not the character of a physical law and is therefore utterly useless. It foretells nothing because we know nothing of the will of the Deity, how it acts and whether constant or inconstant like that of man.

Charles Darwin

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Pete Hald

I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.

Barbara Stanwyck

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

Carice van Houten

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Bobby Fischer

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Deborah Tannen

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Dikembe Mutombo

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.

Dikembe Mutombo

As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

Ayelet Zurer

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Dan Stevens

I always wanted to be an actor.

Daniel Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

Alec Guinness

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Mathieu Amalric

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Martin Scorsese

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

Megan Hilty

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Mads Mikkelsen

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.