Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugo Weaving

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

Hugo Weaving

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

Humphrey Bogart

(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

Our guys have been here before and I was real proud of the character and guts our kids showed at the end. It was a tight game, but I never saw us panic. That's the mark of a good team and I think our kids were comfortable in the environment.

Our goal was to make it to the playoffs. I never expected this. It's the same group of kids except for a couple. I underestimated the character of the kids.

Our guys showed some character today, but can't do anything in the conference showing up once a week. We're not going to get very far showing up once a week and that's about what we're doing.

Our guys showed a lot of character and heart. It wasn't going to real good there at the beginning. But we made some plays at the end of the half to give us some momentum, a little feel-good going into the locker room.

Over the years you either keep your character for various reasons, or you let them go.

Chris Scelfo

Our team is going to be ready to play. You are going to be amazed. It is a special group with character and pride. We are going to control what we can control.

Our girls made the adjustments and showed a lot of character in the second half.

Our top guys are character guys, and they never quit. It's contagious.

Our Zinfandel is so complex I thought it deserved special treatment. It's a grape that reveals tremendous character in the right hands.

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

Lee Tamahori

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.

Otto Rehhagel

We are not going to Portugal as tourists, we will not be the character actors,

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Lindy Booth

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings. There's definitely something about creating a cloak of a character that helped me deal with my shyness.

We did something that everyone has been talking about, which is create a new character that now lives in several different mediums.

We didn't play our best, but a lot of that credit has to go to Republic. This was a rivalry game and they were ready to play. I thought we showed some character down the stretch because things weren't going our way tonight.

Christopher Nolan

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Lindsay Pulsipher

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go.

This stings, but you know what? You just get back to work. There's a lot of character in this room, and maybe going on the road is not the worst thing that could happen to us.

Tim Crouch

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Tahar Rahim

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

Alexander Skarsgard

I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.

Alexander Skarsgard

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Alexander Skarsgard

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

Alexander Skarsgard

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

We would have thought that. Y'all wouldn't have thought that. So rephrase that question. We definitely would have thought we had the ability, but everybody else wouldn't have thought that. That's the difference of a character of a team.

We were a little sluggish tonight. We didn't have the legs we wanted to, but we had the character to find a way to get the two points.

We were able to make plays down the stretch. We showed our character and toughness.

We definitely showed a lot of character and heart to come back the way we did. In the first half we dug a very deep hole with Toledo's pressure defense and 14 turnovers.

Evan Esar

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.