Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of… — Ben Lloyd-Hughes Copy Share Image
When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the… — Gabriella Wilde Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Bobos are uncomfortable with universal moral laws that purport to regulate pleasure. Bobos prefer more prosaic self-controlled regimes. The things that are… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at… — Matthew Davis Copy Share Image
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
It is attitude, infinitely more than circumstance, that determines the quality of life. Life is often quite tough, challenging us to choose… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Once, a French journalist told me that all my films are the same. I said, 'Excuse me? I work hard to make… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
“The moral attitudes of dominant and privileged groups are characterised by universal selfdeception and hypocrisy. The unconscious and conscious identification of their… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image