Characters Quotes

• A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Isolation
  • Guarantee
  • Promote

• Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Characters
  • Percent
  • World`s population

• There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

  

  Steve Erickson
  • Like
  • Characters
  • Rule

• Dance is a way of connecting and finding a moment with someone. It really is something special and unique that you don't find in any other physical activity, you know? Because it's you with another person, and you guys dive in together with these characters. So dance, to me, has been really special to create amazing bonds with people.

  

  Allison Holker
  • Dance
  • Create
  • Characters

• It's the primordial characters of the Star Wars. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Warrior
  • Princess
  • Star Wars

• The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

  

  Norman Rush
  • Characters
  • Plot
  • Natures

• When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Humor
  • Teenager
  • Cartoony

• Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Circumstances
  • Characters
  • Customs

• I've always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters.

  

  Jovan Adepo
  • Life
  • Characters
  • Escape

• I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

  

  Simon Helberg
  • Happy
  • Try
  • Characters

• Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.

  

  Ricky Schroder
  • Sometimes
  • Really
  • Terrifying

• I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

  

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Earth
  • Longer
  • Superfluous

• The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

  

  Michael Spiller
  • Storytelling
  • Meant
  • Pilot

• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  

  Bryan Talbot
  • Book
  • Garen Ewing's
  • The Rainbow Orchid

• …often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Women
  • History
  • Philosopher

• I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Emotion
  • Work Hard
  • Suppress

• If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Movies
  • Scripts
  • Descriptions

• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Characters
  • Anthology
  • Potographic reliquary

• It's not like it would be a stretch, and hopefully I'll get to be funny. There are a lot of characters in skating.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Characters
  • Lot
  • Skating

• I use the Net for a lot of things besides e-mailing. I involve myself in chats with people as part of my research for characters.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Characters
  • Research
  • Emailing

• A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

  

  Hayden Schlossberg
  • Movies
  • Sequels
  • Caricatures

• I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.

  

  Ayana Mathis
  • Gay
  • Write
  • Characters

• Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.

  

  Tacitus
  • Characters
  • Fame
  • Despised

• I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Characters
  • Legends
  • Myths

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