For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“Villalobos had always been eager to work in law enforcement. When he was in high school, he assembled a group of boys… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character… — Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in… — St. John Vianney Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When youre delivering your lines, hell stop… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the… — Amy Pascal Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If I'm to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the… — Umar Copy Share Image