Great Character Quotes - Page 5

• My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.

  Jerry Weintraub

  Mother, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Drama, Book, Character

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• I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason to bring him back, we'll bring him back.

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Memories, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

  Matt Kindt

  Fun, Character, Ideas

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Heart, Character, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

  Chad Stahelski

  Stars, Hero, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• [With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Character, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

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• If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

  Andre Holland

  Character, Men, Long

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

  Jamie Foxx

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm 28 years old in that - and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.

  Brent Spiner

  Jobs, New York, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's so clear and concise, and it's entertaining in the sense that everyone can relate to it. But you have no doubt what our Lord was trying to communicate in the heart of that story. So the truth was not sacrificed on the altar of entertainment in that case. And it can be.

  Max Lucado

  Drama, Heart, Character

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• [John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.

  Ron Clements

  Reading, Character, Islands

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Character, Sandwiches

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!

  Kofi Siriboe

  Father, Character, Angel

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.

  Drew Magary

  Real, Stupid, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.

  Mo Rocca

  Character, People, Grandparent

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

  Les Brown

  Judging People, Judgement, Done

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• 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.

  Geoff Johns

  Fall, Character, Focus

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• Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

  J. Robbins

  Character, Fabulous, Beard

  Source: collider.com

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• I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

  Harry Hamlin

  Character, Play, Directors

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• Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

  Brad Falchuk

  Writing, Character, Actors

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Ambition, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.297, Library of America

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• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Character, Thinking, Chinese

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  Oren Peli

  Drama, Character, Thinking

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• The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

  Frances O'Connor

  Character, Play, Depth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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