Top 406 Arc Quotes & Sayings

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

You don't have to be a superhero to change the arc of history.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play. And then when you do a movie, you have the whole character - or, if it's a small role, there's not much arc, but you see what the whole part is.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.

There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

My favorite artists are the ones that I can take their eight or ten albums, and I can see the arc of their life.

Kai was my longest arc that I had done on a show, so it was a big step forward to me.

I have to go through that arc with Dolores, and I didn't know what my arc was going to be. We found out episode by episode, and the more it went on, the more I felt a change in myself and allowed myself to be strong and to get angry and to access emotions that I don't normally, and I think a lot of women don't because we're kind of conditioned not to. It's freed me in a way, and it made me find a strength in myself.

When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

I think the arc of history is long, and it bends toward justice. And I think that's what the 'Star Wars' message is. You know, the dark side is in the human heart. And chaos is very troubling for an individual or for a culture, which can lead you to authoritarian leaders. But the arc of history is on the right side. I believe that.

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space because for actors it's a micro-focus and then you figure out your arc through what the writers have given you to say. But that arc is just one little piece of the huge arc of the whole film. It took a while to get out of that.

You have to take into account the arc of your foot when you're buying heels.

Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed in flight, And we bade it stoop and stay. And what with the dawn of night began With the dusk of day was done; For that is the way of woman and man, When a hazard has made them one. Arc upon arc, from shade to shine, The World went thundering free; And what was his errand but hers and mine - The lords of him, I and she? O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one.

It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

With 'Journey,' we created an emotional arc for two different scenarios. So, if you play alone, it's a good game. You have what we think is a complete emotional arc. You will feel, I guess, a sense of transformation in the single-player. Because it's a hero's journey.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction for me - writing nonfiction which is about serious subjects and has serious political and social points to make, yet which is meant to be popular to a degree - what happens when the facts don't fit a convenient narrative arc? I guess that for a lot of nonfiction writers that is a central challenge.

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

History's long arc is different than the today's headlines.

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.