“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Your personal values are not just what you espouse. It is how you behave and react in the face of temptation, under… — Prakah Iyer Copy Share Image
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
When you do a half-hour show, there's only so much you can do. At best, you're going to get a character with… — Jean Smart Copy Share Image
After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“The two highest levels of influence are achieved when 1) people follow you because of what you've done for them, and 2)… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I'd be playing a… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a director's actor. I love the environment of the set, I want to be there and I try to understand… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Ice,' in the beginning when I got the script, felt like a show that was searching for what… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
“It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.” — Juliet Gael Copy Share Image
My sort of stability as a character, it's never been one of my strongest attributes. I'm a bit of a clusterf*ck. I… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play… — Marin Ireland Copy Share Image
We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,'… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements… — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should… — Katrina Kaif Copy Share Image
Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I played a little football but it was nothing like boxing. One on one. Me vs. you. You win, you win. I… — Demetrius Andrade Copy Share Image
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