Christopher Plummer Quote

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Jodie Foster

• Society

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Orlando Bloom

• Politics
• Spirituality
• Discovery

Politics ruins the character.

Otto von Bismarck

• Politics

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Heraclitus

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

Tony Curtis

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

Herodotus

• Belief

A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Inspirational
• Seriousness
• Famous

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

Miguel de Cervantes

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

• Mind
• Learning

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Heraclitus

• Soul
• People

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

Aristophanes

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Juliette Binoche

• Actress

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

• Discovery

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

• Hope

I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

Meg Ryan

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Charlotte Church

Now the decision to play a role is halfway towards understanding the character, because you empathize with it and that's why you want to play it.

Jeremy Irons