I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed… — J C Watts Copy Share Image
That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will… — Isaiah Austin Copy Share Image
Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do,… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely… — Stephen Root Copy Share Image
With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do:… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
“Perversion is used only to overcome moral prejudices or conformity; the mind and desire must become amoral, focused and made entirely acceptive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will read the whole script just to see what my character is doing, but I won't touch a script that… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm calling for a cultural change in how we think about addiction. For far too long people have thought about addiction as… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the… — Steve Pink Copy Share Image
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
I think people do get better as the movies go on sometimes, and I'm always happy that we're shooting out of order,… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a… — Jason Lewis Copy Share Image