Marley Dias Quotes

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.

I don't know if 'M*A*S*H' made me a better actor, but I know it made me a better human being.

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

I'm trying to show people that I'm a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I'm trying to make the best of it.

I believe everything you experience in life and football can make you better.

It's been the greatest gift that I've been given. Because no matter how much my parents have asked me to be more patient, no matter much my husband has asked me to be more patient, none of it mattered until I had a kid. And then all of sudden I was like, "Oh. I have to be more patient." They were all like, "Yeah! We've been telling you that for twenty years!" And I find it to be a gift. Every day I'm more patient.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.

I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

All of my past challenges have helped me become who I am today.

Every project you're involved in and any character that you're invested in ... you learn a message from that experience. I know that sounds a little cheesy, but it's true. Its kind of funny the parallel that I drew from that, you kind of learn something and you get to apply it to the next thing.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.