Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Bluth

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

Don Cheadle

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

DJ Qualls

A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

Dianne Wiest

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

Dexter Fletcher

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

David Brooks

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

David Brooks

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

David Anders

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.

Dave Foley

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

Darren Shan

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

David Selby

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

David Shields

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

David Schwimmer

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

David Sedaris

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

David Sedaris

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.

David Sedaris

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

David Morrissey

Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

David McCullough

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

David McCullough

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

David McCullough

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

David Mitchell

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

David Koechner

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

David Krumholtz

First of all, it was wonderful to have a home. Consistent work when you're a journeyman actor, when you're a character actor, is really hard to come by. When you can get it, you have to cherish every moment of it - cherish the crew, cherish the cast, cherish the stage, cherish everything. Because when it's over, it's really hard to get back.

David Krumholtz

I wish that I had gotten a chance to do another season of [ Gigi Does It], to see if I could explore the story more, or the character more, and also find an easier way to make the show. We never got that opportunity. But I'll always be super, super proud of it.

David Krumholtz

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

David Giuntoli

I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more of the mythology has crept in, and the characters are starting to bloom.

David Giuntoli

I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be.

David Cross

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

Dave Barry

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying “What’s for dinner?” you say, “Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!” And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms.

Dave Barry

I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

David Strathairn

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

David Thewlis

Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.