Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neill Blomkamp

'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

Neil Young

The person who builds a character makes foes.

Rachel McAdams

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

R. Lee Ermey

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

R. Lee Ermey

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

Nic Pizzolatto

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

Nic Pizzolatto

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

Nic Pizzolatto

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

Nia Long

I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.

Nia Long

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

Nia Long

There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.

Niccolo Machiavelli

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Noah Hathaway

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

Noah Hawley

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

Noah Hawley

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Noah Webster

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Noah Webster

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Noam Chomsky

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Mike Myers

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

Mike Myers

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.

Mike Myers

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Mike Myers

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Mike Myers

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

Joe Morton

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

Joe Morton

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

Joe Murray

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

Joe Dante

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Jodi Picoult

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

Jodi Picoult

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

John Green

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

John Green

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.