Top 1200 Complex Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world.

Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one.

I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't take up a life of its own, and the characters can't take up a life of their own. You handicap the story when you try to protect your characters.

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.

One of my favorite scenes in Fellini is the ecclesiastical fashion show in Roma, and the end of 8 ½, when all the characters in the life of Guido, Marcello Mastroianni, get together and do this grand procession. That was on my mind, especially at the 45th anniversary, when all those characters in Valentino's life returned to Rome. I kept watching that and saying, if only we can arrange that grand procession at the end...and it kind of happened.

I'm a member of a very complex and richly valued race.

Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

Complex systems are hard to understand, predict and control.

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to confine the stories you can tell about characters to tropes of bone-headed action and old models of psychological realism. And as readers, too, we have been conditioned to understand characters as - and forgive me for saying it out loud - what the market says they should be. Namely, safe, clean, proper.

I am not a very complex person. I believe in simplicity.

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think that's why people are kinda gravitating towards female super hero characters, and also female characters in general as big parts of the film. So, that's great for us, female actors who want to do roles like that, which is really great.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

The Wachowskis have a very complex way of thinking and of creating.

We're all more complex than the person we put out there.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

John Sidney McCain III was as complex as they come.

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

To me life is very complex. But there's always humor.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.

I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

Ultimately, everyone's life is complex, and it's good to show that.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.