Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
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.
And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.
I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.
Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."
I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .
Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.
I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself
In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.
I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.
I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.
It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.
Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.
Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.
You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.
For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.
I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.
When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.
One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white.
With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.
I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.
I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.