I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social… — Mora Stephens Copy Share Image
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the… — Dan Scanlon Copy Share Image
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its… — Wilbur A. Smith Copy Share Image
I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles,… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get… — Richard Shepard Copy Share Image
I was then and am now very much a happy warrior, very much joyful. Not engaging in character attacks myself, just putting… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“Rhadamanthus said, “We seem to you humans to be always going on about morality, although, to us, morality is merely the application… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
TNA has been great as far as allowing me to have more input creatively on my character and the direction of my… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character;… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“when you face disappointments and trials in life, your response dictates the character that will be created in you as a result.” — Spencer Fraseur Copy Share Image
It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Personally, I love going to see a film when you can really watch a character. If you've just read some article about… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people;… — J. B. Bickerstaff Copy Share Image
I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“...So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image