“...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
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
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
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
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
Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold 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
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
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
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
I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The first couple of weeks of filming were quite tricky for me to find my feet with the character [Maigret], which wasn't… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course,… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
“Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice,… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Your Worst Behavior Should Be Reserved For The Person Who Loves You The Most Because Somehow, No Matter What You Do.. That… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
People will talk about character arcs, but you look at the character arc of C-3PO from 'Star Wars' to 'Return of the… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A pretty face might have wrinkles on it and demolished but a pretty heart keeps getting prettier till the end. Inner beauty… — Anas Copy Share Image
Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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