Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Plimpton

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

Martha Plimpton

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

Mark Ruffalo

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

Mark Ruffalo

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

Marge Piercy

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell what actually was part of your life and what is part of the story of the fictional character.

Marge Piercy

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as a doorway into that character's mind and emotions.

Marge Piercy

I never thought of myself as explaining cats in general. I simply viewed the cats I have known as characters in my life, often as quirky and complex as the humans with whom I have spent time.

Terrell Owens

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.

Ted Cruz

I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting out, "Here are the facts, here are the evidence."And I noted, for example, that both of them [Marco Rubio and Donald Trump] were relying on fabrications.

Miranda July

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic.

Miranda July

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

Milla Jovovich

I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.

Milla Jovovich

When I did The Fifth Element [1997], it was like, "Oh my goodness, who is this character?" I loved doing Resident Evil, but Resident Evil is Resident Evil with or without me. It's an entity of its own. It's not like Milla made Resident Evil.

Milla Jovovich

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Milla Jovovich

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

Milla Jovovich

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

Miles Teller

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

Miles Teller

I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours of boxing, 2 hours of weights, an hours of accent and dialect training, I just enjoyed having to do all that for this character [ Vinnie Paz in Bleed for This].

Miles Teller

I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I don't know, usually the older you get you get characters with more responsibility. Each one is different, there are certain movies that when the guy starts you pretty much come with that character on page one and then you see their growth, whereas other guys a lot has happened before that movie starts and you have to come in with something.

Mike Mills

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

Mignon McLaughlin

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Mignon McLaughlin

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Mignon McLaughlin

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Johnny Galecki

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

John Wooden

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

John Wooden

Be more interested in character than reputation

John Wooden

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

John Wooden

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

John Wooden

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

John Wooden

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

John Ruskin

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

John Ruskin

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.