Top 1200 Complex Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

I think the universal themes of "American Pie" are what make it attractive to everybody. How to people relate to these characters? It's because these five male characters in this movie wouldn't ordinarily be in the same friend group and they each have their own part to play in the whole thing. There's a character for everybody in this movie that they can relate to... that they either were or knew someone that was. To cover the range like that is pretty unique to our franchise.

People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

These new 'hybrid' F1 cars represent an extremely complex project.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything.

gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

I've got the most complex - my life isn't boring. It never has been.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall that could ensue so I think they're going to be very careful about how they do that. At the same time I don't think they want to leave the characters in the same holding pattern that they've been in for a while. I think that they're all trying to put the characters in a different situation.

If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

With the exception of the military industrial complex, we all want a more peaceful world.

I like games that are complex - the deeper you get into the game, the more there is to learn.

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.