You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling,… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man.… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How does your integrity reflect on God and impact the people around you? None of us are perfect, but we can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the… — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the… — Phil Morris Copy Share Image
“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Darwin proposed that creatures like us who, by their nature, are riven by strong emotional conflicts, and who have also the intelligence… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
