Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

George Washington

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

George Santayana

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

George Santayana

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

George Santayana

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

George Santayana

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

George Packer

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

George McGovern

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

G. H. Hardy

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

Emily Watson

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

Emily Watson

You have to play the logic of a character.

Emily Watson

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

Emily VanCamp

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

Emma Forrest

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much.

Elsa Maxwell

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Jason Wu

I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

Jason Statham

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

Jasper Fforde

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Jason Schwartzman

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt

Jason Reitman

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

Jason Lee

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Jason Momoa

I was on Stargate: Atlantis for four years, playing a similar character called Ronon, who was an alien that didn't say much and grunted. I've been there and done that. Whether people have seen it or not, you want to stretch. And then, while I waited, I got The Red Road, and I'd never gotten anything like that.

Jason Momoa

I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level.

Jason Mraz

The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.

Hilary Swank

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

Hippocrates

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases, but has a natural cause, and its supposed divine origin is due to men's inexperience, and to their wonder at its peculiar character.

You're not going to make a smash live-action movie when your lead character is a special effect. Especially one that doesn't even speak.

You're never happy when you lose, but I liked the effort and the character to get back into the game.

Scott Baker

You're looking at some of the future. And that's good. Whether we're in it in the end or not will probably determine these guys' playing time. And when they get in there, I think they'll make the most of their opportunities because that's the type of character they have and the kind of players they are.

Jon Stewart

You're dealing with a show where the lead character is making the irritating and uncomfortable choice,

You really start to see some of the life choices the characters are starting to make.

Your decision on this will determine the character and quality of the Highlands landscape for many years and possibly irrevocably.

Jane Goldman

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.