Joseph Jacobs Quotes
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Quotes to Explore
-
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
-
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
-
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
-
All of my characters are less than perfect.
-
When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
-
For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
-
For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
-
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
-
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
-
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
-
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
-
I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
-
[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
-
With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape.
-
Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
-
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
-
That is the beauty of having characters that don't make a big deal out of being gay, or lesbian, or whatever. They are just what they are, and that is acceptable - and that nobody should question that and that love is love.
-
'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a narrator, I get to experience each story up close and personal and go through the same range of emotions as the characters.
-
We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.
-
You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.
-
Making love to a fat woman sure is a treat, because I'm here to tell you that meat hold heat.
-
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
