“You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.” PeopleWayWritingKindCharacterShowsEasierOne DayRhythm Author:Chris Terrio
“I think everyone should read The Girl on The Train, especially if they loved Gone Girl. It's about Rachel, a girl who sees a couple on her commute. Then one day she sees one of the people from the couple kiss another person. The next day they go missing. The story is told by 3 different perspectives, all characters you absolutely can't trust. It's an insane psychological thriller that's seriously addicting and the kind of book you can't put down.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldKindPersonsBookDifferentCharacterStoriesGirlNextGoneMissingPerspectiveCoupleOne DayKissingTrainPsychologicalInsaneNext DayThrillersDifferent PerspectivePsychological Thrillers Author:Kyle
“I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.” WantFeelsI CanEnoughCharacterUseAbleFacesStrongOne DayWake UpRescueStrong Enough Author:Cecelia Ahern
“I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.” PlayCharacterOne DayBritishAccentsScottish Author:Chris Lilley
“I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.” CharacterSpiritBornKingsOne DayLuckyExpectationsBuiltFoundationEntitlementSo LuckyEntitlement Programs Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.” PeopleKindMeanPlayCharacterHateGoalCareersLaughingComedyNiceSadnessCryBalanceDramaOne DayI HateMy FavoriteBeing NiceBeing MeBeing MeanHappiness Sadness Author:Topher Grace
“Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.” WayNeedsLooksCharacterEyeNamesGrowsSoundRaceCuttingPlayerOne DaySellsWanderAliensBoredLatterAnnoyingDistractedChalkEbayErasersChalkboardsRpgs Author:Neal Stephenson
“You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.” MenWorldWantKindCharacterChoicesGrowsGrowing UpOne DayChanging The WorldSteelGood Character Author:Jonathan Kent
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!” ChildrenLittlesStatesCharacterDreamTodayAbleTogetherNationsJusticeFourColorSonOne DayRedSkinsTablesSlaveInjusticeOppressionFormerHillsHeatOwnersBrotherhoodJudgedTransformedGeorgiaMississippiOasisSlave OwnersInjustice And Oppression Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she's having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.” ThinkingWholeCharacterComedyWonderfulSeriousOne DayDirectorsPerformancesPreparedCriticizeBad DayDenseHaving A Bad Day Author:Glenn Close
“One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.” WayKindLittlesTwoCharacterStoriesRunningNightStreetsMiddleOne DayRiversTinyOver ItLittle ThingsButterflyJumpingExquisiteTwo DaysMiddle Of The NightPavementNairobi Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
“I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be an actor!" My mom and I would always read story books out loud together and I loved doing character voices and playing with my voice.” WantSaidBookCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsVoiceMomOne DayMy MomLoudThought Of The DayStory Book Author:Atticus Shaffer
“One day when I was working on a movie, I stayed at the beach a little too long, and they said, “You are going to ruin a whole day of shooting because you’re so dark. Two days ago you weren’t like this!” So I started putting that in the character; I made him suntanned all the time.” LittlesLongMadeSaidTwoWholeCharacterDarkOne DayRuinsBeachShootingThey SaidTwo Days Author:George Hamilton
“Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who did Independence Day. But "Brakish" just came up one day when Jeff Goldblum and I were improvising, and he told me his character's name and I told him mine.” DoneCharacterGuyNamesSpecialEffectsMinesOne DayIndependenceDrsDeanIndependence DaySpecial EffectsImprovising Author:Brent Spiner
“I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.” LongHardWholeCharacterBigsRememberCrimeOne DayShotsCirclesCarrieCopEpisodesLong AgoInvestigatingFull Circle Author:Eric McCormack
“I realized that here's a moment for me to learn so until I learn and understand more about how types of films are done - action, sci-fi - even though I have a desire to do it, I won't go into it until I'm very clear that I can do it and that moment hasn't come yet. Maybe one day I will ready, but for now, I just enjoyed playing the character.” DoneMomentsCharacterActionFilmDesireOne DayI Realized Author:Tyler Perry
“I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would love to be Odette in Swan Lake one day. I think that would be the ultimate role.” ThinkingBelieveDifferentCharacterI BelieveOne DayUltimateMy FavoriteAdaptingI Am Pretty Author:Misty Copeland
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ChildrenLittlesCharacterDreamNationsJusticeFourTeachingIdentityColorKingsIntegrityOne DaySpeechDiversityRacismSkinsHuman RightsConservativeEqualitySillyDiscriminationAfrican AmericanHypocrisyBlack PeopleJudgedAmerican DreamDiverseAmerican HistorySentimentalGood CharacterI Had A DreamUnity In DiversityOregonSkin ColorEquality And JusticeBeing EqualHappy ChildrenIntegrity And CharacterIntegrity CharacterEquality Of PeopleEquality For AllI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechAnti RacistKings And LoveBeing JudgedGood KingsSocial EqualityPeaceful ProtestSlave OwnersInjustice And OppressionAnti DiscriminationBlack SkinRacism And PrejudiceDark SkinnedJustice EqualityJudge Of CharacterTolerance And DiversityBrown SkinMarch On WashingtonPolitical EqualityRace And ColorDefects Of CharacterTrue EqualityAfrican RacePreschool Children Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I'm not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. And I hope I have an exciting enough life that somebody might make a movie about that one day. I don't want to make movies about other people. I was once approached about playing Salvador Dali, which I thought would've been fun until I found out that he was proud of kicking a blind man across the street. So, I decided, I didn't want to play that guy. So, I think I'll just keep it the way it is.” PeopleThinkingMenEnoughCharacterGuyFunProudOne DayExcitingBlind Author:Nicolas Cage
“Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a pregnant person, to stave off the sense of incipient disaster. You're bringing a person into this overcrowded world, knowing they're one day going to die and there's nothing you can do about it.” WorldCharacterReadingOne DayAmbitionDisasterPregnantUtopian Author:Lauren Groff
“I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.” MenHeartLittlesI CanBookDifferentDoneCharacterIndividualWaitingDarkMy OwnOpinionPersonalityOne DayAspectReactionsVisibleSicknessAlteredConstellationsGreat Service Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott” IfsThinkingLooksChildrenCharacterLastsBeautifulNightNextMorningAmountOne DayBedHusbandPlanningThrownPlotTwelveBobLast NightEarthquakesPessimistDejected Book:Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated