Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Gerard

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

Giancarlo Esposito

What I love about 'Breaking Bad' is the reflection of many people's - it's more real in terms of people have faults, people have character traits that they don't like about themselves. It resembles more of what the human journey really is and it's less fantastic and hero-driven than other characters and shows that we watch.

Gillian Armstrong

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

Will Poulter

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Vikas Swarup

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Emilia Fox

I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.

Michael Spiller

The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

Brina Palencia

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Juvenal

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

C. S. Lewis

Selfishness has never been admired.

Ludwig von Mises

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Dalai Lama

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

Anne Campbell

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

Barbara Ryan

The restructuring is not heroic by any stretch of the imagination.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.