I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
The most rewarding thing for me is people coming up and thanking me for being a great character guy for their kids;… — Andy Dalton Copy Share Image
My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general.… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the… — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it.… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom… — Gary L. Bauer Copy Share Image
The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a… — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
There's something very strange and wrong-seeming about drawing realistic eyeballs in comics, at least in the mode of comics where action is… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold.… — Solon Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes,… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life… — Malcolm Gets Copy Share Image
“When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their… — Huananzi Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's… — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Truth Is: Don't let anyone powersteering dictate your character nor your future, because all men are created equal, the only difference is… — Larry Cowell Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image