Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Sanderson

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

William Samuel Johnson

Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him.

William Safire

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

William S. Burroughs

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

Virginia Woolf

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

Vincente Minnelli

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Vincent D'Onofrio

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

Vincent D'Onofrio

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

Vincent D'Onofrio

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

Vincent D'Onofrio

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

Wong Kar-wai

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

Woody Hayes

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

Woodrow Wilson

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

Woodrow Wilson

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Woodrow Wilson

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woody Allen

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

William Wordsworth

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Shatner

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

William Shenstone

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

William Shenstone

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

William Shatner

Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

William Shatner

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

William Shatner

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

William Shatner

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

William J. Clinton

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

William Gilmore Simms

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

William Friedkin

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

William Gibson

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

Will Estes

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.