Karl Malden Quotes
I never thought I was salable. I learned in my second year of drama school that I was not a leading man - I was a character actor. So I thought, "I'd better be the best character actor around.
Karl Malden
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
Rachel Hurd-Wood
You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
Yuna
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
Victoria Hanley
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
Valerie June
I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. Harvey
I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
Garth Risk Hallberg
I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
Sally Hawkins
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.
Kate Atkinson
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.
Abigail Washburn
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
Walter Benjamin
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
Valentino Garavani
So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.
Jane Mayer
I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.
Bruce Willis
I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
Warren Moon
Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I never thought I was salable. I learned in my second year of drama school that I was not a leading man - I was a character actor. So I thought, "I'd better be the best character actor around.
Karl Malden
