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Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a goo...
PILOU ASBAEK Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
PILOU ASBAEK I did a film called 'Worlds Apart' about a Jehovah's Witness. I was the love interest - ...
PILOU ASBAEK The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the...
PILOU ASBAEK In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title...
PILOU ASBAEK The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin...
PILOU ASBAEK One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo...
PILOU ASBAEK With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,&#...
PILOU ASBAEK It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been ...
PILOU ASBAEK On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and...
PILOU ASBAEK About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS![]()
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.
MATT LEBLANC![]()
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS![]()
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN![]()
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN![]()
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'
RICHARD DAWKINS Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN![]()
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA![]()
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA![]()
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA![]()
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA![]()
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA![]()
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA![]()
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too grea...
DALIA MOGAHED I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES![]()
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE![]()
Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are t...
JULIE BISHOP What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ...
MADHURI DIXIT Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON![]()
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing...
JOHN LOGAN My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the m...
ALANNA UBACH![]()
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess...
MARGARET ATWOOD 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of ti...
CARLTON CUSE![]()
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
DANIEL CLOWES I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometime...
CECILY STRONG![]()
It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've g...
MATT GROENING 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film ...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a...
TARA STRONG![]()
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&...
TA-NEHISI COATES People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it&...
ADAM GARCIA Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical a...
CHRIS PRATT I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in...
ADAM DEREK SCOTT I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-prov...
LILY COLE It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were slee...
JESSICA CUTLER Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also m...
ELISE BROACH For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the charact...
ADAM COHEN I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, t...
AIDAN GILLEN![]()
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them ...
DAVID MORRISSEY I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ...
JOHN LOGAN![]()
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
RONALD REAGAN![]()
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c...
TATIANA MASLANY![]()
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan...
SEAN YOUNG![]()
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac...
RYAN GOSLING Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON![]()
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across med...
BING GORDON There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characte...
BILL FORSYTH The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS![]()
When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN![]()
I'm a low-key guy. So I like going to places and not being known. So it's weird when people ...
BRYSON TILLER There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO![]()
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ...
KEN FOLLETT![]()
The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Rus...
AKHMAD KADYROV As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ...
JAMES BADGE DALE Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
YOSSI SARID![]()
Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family y...
EDDIE MARSAN At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People w...
HARMON KILLEBREW![]()
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e...
NANCY PELOSI The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES![]()
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters....
TERRY PRATCHETT These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that ...
KUNAL NAYYAR I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is...
CRAIG FAIRBRASS![]()
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black ...
ANGELA DAVIS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are rea...
JONATHAN EVISON I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
SIMON CALLOW I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to peo...
DAVE FILONI I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that...
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY![]()
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
ASHLEY TISDALE![]()
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characte...
SUZANNE COLLINS![]()
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don&#...
KEVIN SPACEY We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of t...
ERIC DARNELL
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a goo...
PILOU ASBAEK Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
PILOU ASBAEK I did a film called 'Worlds Apart' about a Jehovah's Witness. I was the love interest - ...
PILOU ASBAEK The American president isn't just the American president. He's going to be the leader of the...
PILOU ASBAEK In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title...
PILOU ASBAEK The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people thin...
PILOU ASBAEK One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo...
PILOU ASBAEK With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,&#...
PILOU ASBAEK It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been ...
PILOU ASBAEK On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and...
PILOU ASBAEK About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS
You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I'm much more low-key than the characters I've played.
MATT LEBLANC
I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN
A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.' RICHARD DAWKINS Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too grea...
DALIA MOGAHED I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are t... JULIE BISHOP What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ...
MADHURI DIXIT Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing...
JOHN LOGAN My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the m...
ALANNA UBACH
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all ess... MARGARET ATWOOD 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of ti...
CARLTON CUSE
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. DANIEL CLOWES I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometime...
CECILY STRONG
It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've g... MATT GROENING 'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film ...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a...
TARA STRONG
When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&... TA-NEHISI COATES People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it&...
ADAM GARCIA Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical a...
CHRIS PRATT I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in...
ADAM DEREK SCOTT I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-prov...
LILY COLE It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were slee...
JESSICA CUTLER Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also m...
ELISE BROACH For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the charact...
ADAM COHEN I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, t...
AIDAN GILLEN
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them ... DAVID MORRISSEY I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ...
JOHN LOGAN
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. RONALD REAGAN
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different c... TATIANA MASLANY
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan... SEAN YOUNG
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... RYAN GOSLING Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.......
That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across med...
BING GORDON There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characte...
BILL FORSYTH The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS
When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
I'm a low-key guy. So I like going to places and not being known. So it's weird when people ... BRYSON TILLER There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're intere...
ELLEN POMPEO
People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... KEN FOLLETT
The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Rus... AKHMAD KADYROV As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ...
JAMES BADGE DALE Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
YOSSI SARID
Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things. CONDOLEEZZA RICE The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family y...
EDDIE MARSAN At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People w...
HARMON KILLEBREW
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e... NANCY PELOSI The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters.... TERRY PRATCHETT These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that ...
KUNAL NAYYAR I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is...
CRAIG FAIRBRASS
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black ... ANGELA DAVIS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are rea...
JONATHAN EVISON I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
SIMON CALLOW I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to peo...
DAVE FILONI I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that...
DAMIAN LEWIS I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl... PAUL BLOOM I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
ASHLEY TISDALE
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characte... SUZANNE COLLINS
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don&#... KEVIN SPACEY We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of t...
ERIC DARNELL
