Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Reitman

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.

Jean de la Bruyere

Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

James Ellis

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

GG Allin

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Gerard Houllier

We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.

Regina Spektor

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

Sanaa Lathan

You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

Ryan Phillippe

In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

W. P. Kinsella

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

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.

Anil Kapoor

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

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Yann Martel

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

Henry David Thoreau

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Karl Marx

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

Julia Gillard

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

Jules Verne

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

Judi Dench

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

Josh Duhamel

When I first started, I wasn't really into movies that much unless it was an action-packed gunslinger with naked women here and there.

Ozzy Osbourne

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.