It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all… — Ti West Copy Share Image
It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant.… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“One must get used to speaking of one’s virtues bravely, to people’s faces. Who is to know, if not we ourselves, to… — Venedikt Erofeev Copy Share Image
To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward… — John F. Kelly Copy Share Image
I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Every single character and every single person in real life can all be 16 or 17 years old and maybe live in… — Sydney Sweeney Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate… — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people.… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I love doing stunts. I'm dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
In writing the new films, I’ve come to realize that AVATAR’s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated,… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans… — Christos Gage Copy Share Image
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it… — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Bascially, I want to do movies wherein even the girl's character actually has a part. If you want me to do glamorous… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image