Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Don Mischer

It had been kind of ignored before that. Disney would do halftime with characters dancing on the field, that kind of stuff. It's become much more intense over the years.

Joe Quesada

I think those characters are going to be around for a very long time thanks to you guys.

Craig Fairbrass

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

Chip Durham

I think that gives them an incentive to go out and play hard everyday and try to have a great season. That way at the end of the year, they're rewarded for it.

Martha Stewart

I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

Elizabeth White

He was in the fourth grade and I was in the second grade. We saw each other everyday and grew up together.

Michael Lynch

He had the normal everyday worries everyone has.

Warren Buffett

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Aaron Ruell

I never expected the movie to become as big as it has. I thought that we'd be lucky if a handful of people outside of our small group would get to see it. Everyone involved with the making of this film was shocked that all of a sudden, lines from the movie had become lines that people would say to each other in everyday life. None of us expected that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

Jennifer Harris

You use it every day. You might not realize it, but you do. A lot of the jobs out there might require more than just your everyday math.

Eric Hoffer

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Steve Martin

He?s already been to the show. I know the intimidation factor will be out of him.

Tom Benson

I think the fact of what San Antonio did for us -- we had no other place to go where something like this was set up -- that's what made this happen.

Tate Donovan

I was a girl who would read magazines and go, 'Oh, my gosh -- look how beautiful. Could I be that thin?' The fact is that's not what's important.

Michael DiLeonardo

I was a killer. I'll always live with the fact that I killed in my life.

Brenda Frese

What makes this team so special is the fact that they don't take any of it for granted. They understand the big picture. There is no guarantee for us next year. They understand that.

Robert Collier

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Li Keqiang

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

Lady Gaga

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

Josh Hartnett

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Rick Derringer

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rex Stout

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Reid Hoffman

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Rick McCallum

Producers don't really publicize movies.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.