It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story.… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
In my ideal world, it would be a soulful connection to the role because you've shared a lot of the same experiences… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up… — Kathy Baker Copy Share Image
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“He'd learned pretty early that the illusioned virtuous creatures were no more than that— illusions. Innocence was a community that was used… — Camille Oster Copy Share Image
I find it much easier to write comic-books than lyrics actually because it's a natural dialogue. Writing song lyrics is not natural… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The good thing about those original credit card commercials was that they were very "filmic", they were like little movies, so it… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I sensed that Confucius is an interesting character. This is someone who lived over 2,500 years ago and is still speaking to… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about Victorian novels is the close anatomisation of character. People's gestures and mannerisms and the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
“Testirajući moju ravnodušnost otkrila je da ni njoj nije svejedno da li je meni svejedno. Pa dobro. Nešto se vec moralo desiti… — Đorđe Balašević Copy Share Image
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved.… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
