Jane Goldman Quotes

We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way that Ripley in 'Alien' could have been a guy, but the part happened to be played by Sigourney Weaver.

Jane Goldman

Quotes to Explore

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

Gabriel Byrne
- People
- Good
- Character
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Damon Hill
- Character
- Cold
- Late
To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

Halima Aden
- World
- Work
- Home
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

Jackson Browne
- Guy
- Influence
- Songs
When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Olivia Hussey
- Why
- Mother
- Girl