Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Selleck

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

Tom Johnson

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

Tom Hollander

Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

Tom Hooper

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Tom Jones

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Hiddleston

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

Tom Hiddleston

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.

Toni Morrison

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Toni Morrison

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

Tommy Franks

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Tommy Douglas

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think.

Tom Stoppard

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

Tom Mison

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

Tom Hanks

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' Yeah, that's what I look for.

Tom Hardy

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

Tom Hardy

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

Tom Hanks

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

Tom Brady

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

Tobias Wolff

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.

Toby Jones

I'm very fortunate that I get asked to do very different kinds of roles and I realize how much I enjoy that. I enjoy the challenge of transformation. There are actors who play one character, or a certain kind of character, the whole of their lives. I really relish the opportunity to have the challenge to totally transform.

Toby Jones

Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

Toby Jones

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Tina Fey

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Josh Hutcherson

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.

Josh Hutcherson

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

Joseph Morgan

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

Joseph Morgan

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

Katherine Heigl

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.

Katherine Anne Porter

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Karen Abbott

Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.

Karen Allen

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.

Karen Allen

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

Karen Allen

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.