Bill Condon Quotes

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

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• Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Character
  • Will
  • Tomorrow

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Find
  • Try

• Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Character
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Birth

• I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Type
  • Scream

• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Christ

• One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Think
  • Easy

• I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Character
  • Proud
  • Along

• I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Acting

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Character

• 'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.

  

  Adriano Giannini
  • Movie
  • Father

• Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Blessed
  • Injustice

• Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Children
  • Book

• A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Character
  • Movie