Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Mason Cooley

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

Mary Karr

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

Mary Karr

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Martin Short

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Martin Short

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

Michael Chabon

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Michael Connelly

The characters I write about are very internal.

Michael Connelly

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

Michael Connelly

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

Michael Connelly

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Michael Chabon

I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

Michael Chabon

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the characters you've created, to imagine what it's like to be somebody else.

Michael Chabon

There's something inherently more appealing about the idea that you could reveal and tell stories about characters over the course of a TV season - 13 or 26 episodes, whatever it might be - than in the course of one two-hour movie. You can do so many more novelistic kinds of things on a TV show - with time, with gradual development of relationships, and so on - than you could possibly do in a movie. And that is very appealing.

Michael Arndt

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

Michael Arndt

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Mia Wasikowska

I love doing accents because it takes you one step away from yourself and allows you to embody someone else's character.

Mia Wasikowska

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

Mia Wasikowska

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

Mia Wasikowska

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Mia Wasikowska

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.

Mia Wasikowska

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

Mia Wasikowska

You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

Michelangelo Antonioni

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

Michelangelo Antonioni

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michel Houellebecq

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Michel Gondry

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

Michael Josephson

Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.

Michael Josephson

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

Michael J. Fox

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

Michael J. Fox

There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.

Martha Plimpton

I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.