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 Bryson

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.

Bill Vaughan

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

David Thewlis

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

Charles de Lint

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.

Beverly Sills

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Barry Bonds

I know when I'm off alignment. I know when my body is out of adjustment. If your body is there, then mentally, you'll be there. If your body feels good, then your mind feels good and your are going to feel better about your game.

Derek Jeter

I can see how people work out to feel better.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.

Robert Fulghum

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Robert Kiyosaki

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

Robert Kiyosaki

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions

Robert Kiyosaki

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...

Robert Kiyosaki

...Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,

Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Petrarch

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Lisa Kleypas

For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?