Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynda Carter

It's sometimes overshadowed by the fact that there's so much else going on and so much flash, but he won't do anything if he doesn't feel the characters are strong.

Each of the six characters are equal. There's no diva, no star of the show. They all are stars. There are times all six of them are singing at exactly the same time, and it actually makes sense. Mozart is the only person who could actually pull it off and make it work.

Everybody's been saying that since the day we started shooting it and when I wrote it that it would make a great series because the characters are so interesting and because it takes place in a small town, it could be ongoing,

It was a collaboration of two unexpected companies -- Disney with their rich heritage of characters and Hysteric because of their strong fashion and trend-setting reputation.

It's very stressful because there is such a short period for rehearsals. It allows us to become a very close-knit group very quickly, and that shows with the characters on stage. It's a real ensemble.

It's vital for teens to see gay characters on television, ... When a gay teen in Iowa sees Jack on 'Dawson's Creek' portrayed as loved, talented and accepted, it sends a strong message that he can be those things, as well.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Art Alexakis

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

The vast majority of these characters are portrayed as stolid, stalwart men who face various crises with a great deal of fortitude and courage. I think that will play a role: Can the woman do it, or is she compensating for some kind of emotional or sexual drive?

They are just so much fun, and you can do a lot with them. The characters are funny as they are written anyway, and with this enthusiastic young cast, they become these charming, lively entities that are telling the story quite beautifully.

Alfonso Cuaron

Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.

Alan Furst

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

Brooke Nevin

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

Booboo Stewart

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'

Jonathan Winters

I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.

Sara Shepard

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Firewalls, strong passwords, passwords need to be between six and eight characters long, try to include numbers, uppercase and lowercase characters and symbols.

Mark Frost

FF ... He says he is currently in negotiations to pen 'Fantastic Four 2' and would love to come back again. He knows in which direction he wants the characters to head and plans to have all the Fantastic Four come back.

Aaron Spelling

Family, many, many years ago, was a simple, correct family, and now I think if you're going to do a family show, you'd better make sure your characters are liked by the families watching, that's it. And now it's more about issues that confront families and their kids, and those are very important issues.

Sean Maher

But now I feel like Firefly and Serenity are their own genre. It's not science-fiction so much as it's about humanity and characters and dynamics between people.

Peter Milligan

There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.

Claire Cameron

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

Christopher Moore

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

Christina Hendricks

We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'

Doug Jones

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

Banksy

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Anushka Sharma

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Lilly Singh

The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of all cultures would relate to those parents.

Liev Schreiber

When you have this structure of a stranger in a strange land, it is essential that the place and characters be really authentic.

Cary Fukunaga

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

This version of the enchanting fairy tale features an expanded script with eight original songs. The kids have created some original characters as well.

Sara Zarr

When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.