Best character & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.”

Trying Ends Hard Play Character The End Of The Day

Author:Ben Nicholas

“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.”

Knows Way Ends Matter Character Stories Interesting Crime Committed Boring Plot Just Being Entertainers

Author:Jo Nesbo

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Different Ends Play Character Would Be Able Beautiful Known Careers Approach Crafts The End Of The Day Different Kinds Beautiful Life

Author:Adepero Oduye

“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Character Actors Left Term Make Sense

Author:Molly Parker

“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.”

Knows Firsts Wells Stills Ends Character Past Mystery Century First Time Speed Posts Flash Rolling Our Thoughts Bent Tweet Paragraph Know It All 140 Character Rolling Along

Author:Ali Smith

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.”

Looks Ends Hard Character Stuff Driven Plot Cool Stuff

Author:Billy West

“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.”

Ends Character Shows Feelings Energy Audience Trouble Week Beats Eight

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.”

Ends Character Humanity The End Of The Day

Author:Russell Hornsby

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

Men Firsts Humans Ends Character Individual Human Beings Acceptance Expression Capacity Western Accepted Civil Rights Realization Justified Premises Freedom Of Expression

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“The end and aim of all education is the development of character.”

Ends Character Education Development Aim

Book:Notes of Talks on Teaching

Source: Notes of Talks on Teaching

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.”

Ifs Feels Ends Character Fighting Passion Process Passionate Screens

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

Kind Ends Reason Character Grows Results Originals Various Mask Our Society Protective End Results

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”

Thinking Should Important Ends Moments Character Stories Minutes Six Losing Seven Editing

Author:Judd Apatow

“Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.”

Ifs Way Writing Ends Matter Character Pieces Great Things Artifice

Author:Jenny Hval

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”

Way Doe Book Ends Character Stories Imagination Forever Goes On Bland

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!”

Stills Ends Character Stories Three Murder Making Money Chapters Going To Work Corpses Detectives Describing Milieu Detective Stories

Author:Mary McCarthy

“Getting into the character is difficult and letting go of your life and the things that kind of define you, whatever it is in life that's your daily routine because you sort of find yourself in this other life and that's difficult and the other end is difficult.”

Kind Ends Character Difficult Letting Go Finding Yourself Routine Define You Daily Routines

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ends Character Film Voice Chance Opinion Audience Right Thing Telling The Truth

Author:Spike Lee

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”

Persons Ends Character Situation Vanity Persuasion Valet

Author:Jane Austen

“Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.”

Ends Character Decided

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.”

Men Ends Character Might Integrity Capable Pursuit Rational Faculty Als Strength Of Character Having Strength

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.”

Feels Ends Character Actors Nice Feel Good The End Of The Day Realising Bubbles Cents Baths Massage And At The End Of The Day Bubble Bath

Author:Halle Berry

“The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly undermining the individuality of the national character. There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten altogether in the means.”

Mind Mean Ends Character Lost Liberty Rights Danger Habit Forgotten Individuality Interference Undermining

Author:James F. Cooper

“We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

“When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.”

Ifs Knows Want Doe Ideas Different Ends Character Guy Know How Television Directors Scripts

Author:Holt McCallany

“Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.”

Ends Character Able Costumes Hang Ups

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.”

People Ends Character Excited

Author:Brandon Routh

“In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.”

Ifs Book Ends Character Stories Problem Literature Violence Solutions Extremes Driven Reasonable Solution To A Problem Lead Characters

Author:Dean Koontz

“I’m a better person in a relationship, and I’m a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.”

Thinking Needs Persons Ends Character Home Motivation Sound Hair Safe Inspired The End Of The Day Makeup Coming Home Insecure Better Person Bananas Hair And Makeup Safe And Sound

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.”

Knows Ends Character Film Winning Challenges Careers Audience Study Special Effects Periods Scripts Contemporary Attractive Pleasant Bumps Seducing Special Effects

Author:Michael Douglas

“There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.”

Feels Two Ends Play Character Night Hours Half Like You Periods Truck Half Hours

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.”

Ends Character Changed Toes

Author:Julie McNiven

“Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!”

People Writing Ends Character Drama Theatre Horrible Psychological Thrillers Horrible Things Weird People

Author:Joseph Mazzello

“Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.”

Source: Loud and Clear

“The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.”

Heart Persons Long Stills Ends Character Action Justice Draws Strive Temporary Retreat Ungrateful Suffocating Heating Recoil Idolized

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?”

Ends Character Vision Responsible Strength Of Character

Author:Ruth St. Denis

“The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.”

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Moments Character Shows Hurt Violence Involved Cost Glory Impact Meant To Be Entertaining Protagonists Cathartic

Author:Charlie Huston

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