When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Comey is a particularly infuriating character, and I think what he has always been about, from when he was the deputy attorney… — Jennifer Palmieri Copy Share Image
I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I am like my character in that, I guess, I like to push buttons a little bit sometimes and maybe I go… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. Give up kindness, renounce morality, and men… — Tao Te Ching Copy Share Image
Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Morality is personal. There is no such thing as collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom,’ she planned to argue. ‘To… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it.… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is… — Sada Thompson Copy Share Image
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction,… — Meredith Vieira Copy Share Image
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page. — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting.… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put… — Raymond Buckland Copy Share Image
I've got a theory with each character I play. Regardless of the actions that they do, I, as Jake, have to like… — Jake Johnson Copy Share Image
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things,… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
'Twelve' was a total indie drama character piece. It wasn't that it was more about the performance, but it was just a… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yeah, I've been in a couple games. I was in one of the 'John Maddens' or actually a couple of the 'John… — B-Real Copy Share Image
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
