Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Lane

He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre, ... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and tried to pull me into more improvisation. I'll get there, but this is not that film for me. It was more of what Gary had in mind; he heard the way the characters speak in his ear when he wrote the words.

How many stunts can you pile on before the characters get really stale and boring?

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

John Wells

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

Rutina Wesley

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

Andrew-Lee Potts

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.

I loved the guy. He was one of the real characters of our time. When I think about him, I smile.

I love my character. I love her spirit, she has a lot of layers. She's complex.

Adrien Brody

I'm sure it would be fun annihilating all my enemies too. I'm not really drawn to that, but as a character I can see it being a lot of fun.

Jane Lindskold

In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.

Julia Quinn

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.

Jon Favreau

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

Samantha Shannon

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

Frank Kelly

I knew that when he stopped speaking, I would have finished the play. One day one of the other characters said something and he didn't reply, it was such a relief!

I like the way they played with a lot of character tonight. We really battled hard. We have 12 games left and I expect this kind of effort in every one of them.

Gena Rowlands

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

Sherwood Schwartz

I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners.

Piper Laurie

If you can see what the outside is like, it stimulates the imagination, it frees you in a way, to think and feel the way a character might.

Graham Moore

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.

If you're going to do everything wrong in one night, hopefully, we'll get it all out of our system. We'll see what kind of character we have. We'll see if we're as good as we think we are.

If you look at our history we've won some key games on the road and I think this team has the character to win on the road.

James Norton

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

Mehcad Brooks

I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character.

James McAvoy

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

Christina Ricci

I liked the idea that this character is sort of like a fairy tale, a princess-y character, very one-sided, no emotional depth,

Jim Jarmusch

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

I'm proud of this club and the character we have shown, especially lately. Now if we can just keep our focus, we can have a nice finish to an already successful season.

I'm proud of David. But not what's he's done in the pool, but the integrity and character and the man and the daddy he is, is what I'm the most proud of.

Tony Shalhoub

I have never seen a role like this of an Arab-American that's seen in such a positive light -- a really well-rounded character with a sense of humor, a professional life, a family life. Not a goodie-goodie -- a person who has his flaws and his shortcomings -- but a real character, not a stereotype.

Buddy Bell

I never really doubted the character of this team. Inexperience shows, and that's something we've got to live with, but the character has always been there. ... We've got a lot of young guys that need to show progress if we're going to get better, and I think they will.

Claudio Ranieri

It's a new Chelsea with a lot of new players but I saw our old character.

LaMont Jordan

It lets you know about the character of your football team,