I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It's very easy as a viewer to judge what you're seeing on television, but every single character is based off of a… — Jacob Elordi Copy Share Image
Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of… — Maren Elwood Copy Share Image
Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“and self-responsibility can only occur where the child is surrounded with moral behavior and allowed to grow her own understanding of the… — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
Women has strength that amazes men. She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens. She hold happiness, love and opinions. She smiles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whoever would understand the character of Washington, in all its compass and grandeur, must learn it from his own writings, and from… — Jared Sparks Copy Share Image
My mother stayed at home and raised me and my closest sister, and that meant that the American Dream and what he… — Cody Rhodes Copy Share Image
What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I basically wanted to use the experiences I've gone through, the struggles of my childhood and kind of use the character that… — Liv Morgan Copy Share Image
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions… — Joseph Badaracco Copy Share Image
There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored… — Julian Jarrold Copy Share Image
[Duke] is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask,… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they do life's menial tasks. For example, I saw my neighbor… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I feel like athletes lean into this indestructible character. But unless you're doing something really shady, no one nails every day of… — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image