“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I mean drafting is a hard process because you're picking between 23-year-olds sometimes and 19-year-olds that have great upside, and some guys… — Danny Ainge Copy Share Image
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me.… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There… — Justin Bartha Copy Share Image
Ingenue parts are plentiful. And once you get old, they'll start hiring you again for character parts. But the middle years are… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me,… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors… — Mukesh Rishi Copy Share Image
I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext,… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued more and more by complex female characters because I'm more in touch with myself. I realize how screwed up or… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
Israeli Arabs are our citizens; they are not the enemy - and we must not allow anybody to undermine Israel's character as… — Yoav Gallant Copy Share Image
I was notorious at NXT for having constant pitches and ideas. I was that girl who would come in every day to… — Lana Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A job in the television industry does not come with a guarantee. Your show might be axed, your character may get killed… — Hiten Tejwani Copy Share Image
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
Chose your partner giving priority to the character, that's the place where the happiness lies. Character stays forever, Beauty fades.. — Habenick Copy Share Image
Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse… — Charles T Sprading Copy Share Image
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character. — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It'z not your gradez or degreez that define your intelligence; it'z the wordz comin out of your mouth that reflect your intellect! — Anonymous Copy Share Image