Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell M. Nelson

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

Ronald Reagan

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Ronald Reagan

Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

Romany Malco

I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

Roger Federer

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Sam Riley

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

Sam Raimi

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

Sam Neill

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Sam Mendes

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Sam Mendes

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

Sally Hawkins

My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.

Sally Hawkins

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

S. Truett Cathy

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

Ruth Rendell

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

Ruth Rendell

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Rumi

The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.

Rumi

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Rumi

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Ron Silver

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Ron Rash

On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

Ron Rash

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Roger Zelazny

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

Roland Barthes

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

Susan Sarandon

There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at times. She just jumped in these scenes that go from anger to hysteria to crying to laughing and back to anger. I just marveled.

Susan Sarandon

Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in terms of storytelling. That being said, on the day, basically what you're trying to get yourself into an open place. And if the character is in a state of anxiety or vulnerability, you try to find some touchstone.

Susan Sarandon

Sometimes when you have to go into something, unless you're gifted and can just turn it on and off like a jukebox, you find someplace where there's nothing going on to get yourself into whatever state your character is entering into.

Susan B. Anthony

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

Suge Knight

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

Stockard Channing

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Stewart O'Nan

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

Stewart Cink

The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.