Joseph Jacobs Quotes

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Joseph Jacobs

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• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• 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.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Kid

• For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Characters
  • Humane

• I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Playing

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Characters
  • Obstacles
  • Southerner

• [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.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • God
  • Truth

• With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape.

  

  Charles Curtis
  • Identity
  • Tape
  • Incidents

• 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?

  

  Charles Handy
  • Future
  • Society
  • Small

• Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Progress
  • Revolutions
  • Incidents

• '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.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Emotions

• Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • I Think
  • Characters
  • Forged

• Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Characters
  • Intention
  • Conversations

• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• In 1979 in Wolverhampton at a club I forgot the name of, my trousers split, luckily up the back. I duct-taped them together just before we went on. I didn't have any spare ones. I've had a few stupid incidents where things have been thrown on stage, but nothing that would put me off going on stage.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Stupid
  • Stage
  • Incidents

• I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Country
  • Places
  • Teaches

• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Ideal
  • Thyself
  • Impediments

• What is important is that the region, the people of Serbia, now draw a line across Milosevic's past and his life, which was a malign influence on the people of Serbia and the whole region.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Food
  • Eating

• Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

  

  Joseph Jacobs
  • Characters
  • Incidents
  • Fairytales