Brian Henson Quotes

And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

Brian Henson

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Try
  • Add

• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Director
  • I Can
  • Watch

• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • She
  • Character
  • Hate

• I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Play
  • Drunk
  • Director

• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Political
  • Action
  • Fight

• When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Yourself

• At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Turn
  • Legal

• Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Character
  • Change

• There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Good
  • Character
  • Me

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Building

• I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on 'Episodes.' He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he's such a huge gay person.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Character
  • Think
  • Gay

• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Children
  • Done

• Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to believe amounts to the sum of their character.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Character

• I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Positive
  • Rules
  • Eating

• At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Future
  • Control
  • Financial

• When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Remember
  • Worry

• 'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Action

• And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Character
  • Action
  • Director