Best percent & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Giving Persons Real Character Elements Percent Deserve Trials Witness Real Person Give 100 Percent

Author:Pauley Perrette

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

“Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.”

World Character Percent Population Larger Than Life

Author:Tom Hanks

“The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.”

Persons Character Facts Five Four Percent Deeds Sensible Seventies Character Of A Person

Author:Anuj

“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.”

Firsts Character Shows Dark Audience Percent Hundred First Time Spots Fifty Introducing Sixty Lit

Author:Peter Stormare

“Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.”

Character Percent Nine Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.”

Writing Kind Character Certain Actors Brain Pieces Picks Percent Method Subconscious

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Character Impossible Modern Normal Percent Gravity Jeans Costumes Diminish Larger Than Life Center Of Gravity

Author:Ray Stevenson

“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Littles Book Character Girl Stuff Responsibility Roles Models Percent Daughter Female Window Males Stores Comic Odd My Daughter Role Models Comic Book Shelves

Author:Mark Millar

“As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.”

Believe Looks Real Character Actors Compassion Empathy Percent Function Compassion And Empathy

Author:Clare Bowen

“If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Character Lost Air Mountain Percent Climbs

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.”

Character Guy Saws New York Percent Hundred Down And Sat This Guy

Author:Chad Stahelski

“I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.”

Play Character School Sports Black Forget Acting Late Percent Grad Conservatory Grad School

Author:Mahershala Ali

“There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.”

Character Film Law Perfect Percent Unwritten Anti Semitic

Author:Spike Lee

“Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.”

Thinking Character Games Fun Percent Video Damn Annoying Ninety Annoyed

Author:Matthew Perry

“Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.”

Character Action Film Used Painting Percent Impact Action Films

Author:Sylvester Stallone

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