And increasingly, as people live online, we are used to making really snap judgments about somebody's character based on their Facebook page… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sturmhond, a privateer from the second book in the series, Siege and Storm,' is probably my favorite character. He's pure confidence and… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Alexa Bliss character, everyone says the character has to be an extension of yourself turned up. But… — Alexa Bliss Copy Share Image
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk,… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations… — Michael Winterbottom Copy Share Image
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When you get your shoes for the character, no matter what you had planned, as far as how you're gonna move, all… — Morgan Spector Copy Share Image
I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning,… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue is a greater good than honour; and one might perhaps accordingly suppose that virtue rather than honour is the end of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
If you talk in a way that is too dissimilar to the character, when people are showing up to see you talk… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script,… — Mathieu Demy Copy Share Image
“Absolute truthfulness, and conscience as its manifestation, are within everybody. Acknowledging it is wisdom, and living it is virtue.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
“If we know for certain that God sees all we do and all we are, we will not be tempted ask others… — Charles Upton Copy Share Image
I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Since I have fought against these Jewish-Soviet ideas in Germany, since I have conquered and stamped out this peril, I fancy that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this… — Billy West Copy Share Image
