In the movie, you have to decide as an actor how you are going to give a character presence. You can't really… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do… — Robert Aldrich Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association,… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality.… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character… — Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character.… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I looked at theater, in the sense that theater is unmanipulated. If I want to pay more attention to one character on… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
“Does a just society seek to promote the virtue of its citizens? Or should law be neutral toward competing conceptions of virtue,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
“like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed… — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Be respectable, but be unique. Stand up for yourself, but remember to be kind. Forget the insults but always remember the compliments. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of… — Aparshakti Khurana Copy Share Image
You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in… — Greg Bryk Copy Share Image
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who… — Chiaki Kuriyama Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only… — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
I love the comics so much, and I grew up reading Marvel Comics. And Doctor Strange is my favorite comic book character… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and… — Henry Czerny Copy Share Image
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