Ultimately, all characters have some negative and positive energies. That's just how I see it. I didn't go out looking for negative… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
My very first story, I was around 5, and I really just wrote myself. When I was 5, I loved myself so… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What I remember from [the first meeting with Samuel L. Jackson] was that he was a friendly, animated kind of guy. His… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary,… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I used to bury myself in character parts and put on a lot of makeup and use a lot of props. At… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values,… — Frances Hesselbein Copy Share Image
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
What we loved about the movies we watched as children was the great character work. They are all about the place where… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
Trump is the white evangelicals' version of V.I. Lenin's 'useful idiot,' a character who is helping achieve their apocalyptic fever dreams, but… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it,… — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
If you ever have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you,that's signal to change the people around… — JOHNREYES Copy Share Image
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is… — Richard Briers Copy Share Image
Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances… — Erich Hoeber Copy Share Image
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point,… — Zoe McKey Copy Share Image
![“What I remember from [the first meeting with Samuel L. Jackson] was that he was a friendly, animated kind of guy. His screen image is a hard boiled intimidating kind of character. That's what I remembered thinking, 'Boy, this guy seems like a normal guy.'” quote by Samuel L. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c4c/samuel-l-jackson-3595_animated_what-i-remember-from-the-first-meeting-w_448956.jpg)
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