David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

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• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Loved

• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Character
  • Day
  • Shoes

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• 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

• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Art
  • Character
  • Best

• 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

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• 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

• I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Female
  • Witches

• 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'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Style

• I would never be fearful of any character.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Never
  • Would

• I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Good
  • Character
  • Supernatural

• The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  

  Vanity
  • Character
  • Beginning

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Character
  • Guy

• When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Character

• I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Up
  • Good
  • Character

• I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

  

  Avicii
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I don’t really feel like the gender of character is what causes someone to identify with them. It’s the situation they’re in, it’s the way they deal with danger, the way that they deal with fears. And so I feel like it’s a slightly larger question in terms of what makes us identify with someone.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Character
  • Question

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

  

  David Bowie
  • Character
  • Stardust