I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look;… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to… — Sir Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They… — James Naismith Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
You're right, we both have been working on these films [Kung Fu Panda] forever and we know these characters so well that… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish eating it nor… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If you would know a man’s good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image