I always ask my actors with whom they'd like to work. Before shooting we discuss how their characters are supposed to have… — Erika Lust Copy Share Image
“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us.… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can… — Robert Ryan Copy Share Image
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Groundedness is the quality I always want to be there, even if Im playing a neurotic character, or a woman with a… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit;… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan… — Bailey Chase Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The opulence and grandeur of a lot of period drama really helps you get into character and appreciate the luxury of good… — Annabelle Wallis Copy Share Image
I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for… — Amber Riley Copy Share Image
In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged.… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Getting Lurch's character straightened out was fun because I was brand new to professional film acting. I had only been in radio… — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I got 'Youth,' I also got a small role in 'Star Wars.' I didn't know what to do. I decided to… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
How lovely to have a character that people sort of remember and have tropes for, lines that I can't even remember saying.… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
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