Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

In Denver, if you get a reputation for being too competitive, people don't want to play with you or do business with you.

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's what gets us in.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.

The court's reputation is affected by what people say only if it seems to have a ring of fairness and authenticity.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character.

I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

It's quite a layered character that I portray in 'Jalebi' and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to get into a different zone as a character. I'm really glad it proved beneficial and worked to my advantage.

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.