Max Apple Quotes

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

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• 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

• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Character
  • Mercy
  • Head

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Single

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Time
  • Long
  • New York

• Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Character
  • Horse

• 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 learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Character
  • Day
  • Idea

• 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
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Weird

• 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
  • World
  • Character
  • Song

• Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Think
  • Him

• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• Han Solo has always been - and I think for a lot of people, too - this iconic character who's the absolute definition of cool.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Character
  • Cool

• When I got 'Youth,' I also got a small role in 'Star Wars.' I didn't know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.

  

  Chloe Pirrie
  • Character
  • Small
  • Star

• I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Team
  • Personality
  • Decided

• Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

  

  John Hagee
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Help
  • Dog
  • Stile

• A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

  

  Max Apple
  • Character