Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch. — John Gilpin Copy Share Image
My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry. — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor. — John Cariani Copy Share Image
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people… — Tyrus Copy Share Image
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“On Lou: She has a childlike purity and integrity of character and at the same time, a quite unchildlike, almost unfeminine, direction… — Alois Biedermann Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
