I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
“We see here that Plato recognizes only one ultimate standard, the interest of the state. Everything that furthers it is good and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The value of autonomy … lies in the scheme of responsibility it creates: autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I've played a different type of character in a different type of thing, for the most part. It's not like you can't… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them,… — James Scott Copy Share Image
“The errors caused by temperament are not to be corrected, because our temperament is perfectly independent of our strength: it is not… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try… — Lenny Abrahamson Copy Share Image
“A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressure, and that is… — Leo Damore Copy Share Image
In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I… — Dylan Frances Penn Copy Share Image
I always think the recipe for success for a game or any sort of a fantasy experience is to think of a… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
“Such decisions ab extra* are sometimes a wonderful relief to those whose habit it has been to decide, not only for themselves,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I'm very much for helping create women who are going to be successful women. I don't like women who imitate men, who… — June Dally-Watkins Copy Share Image
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off.… — Alice Eve Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Comey had turned away from his upbringing and embraced various kinds of evangelism. He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist teacher… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
“we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when… — John Kani Copy Share Image
There’s no tipping point where you become what you are. Character development starts when you’re growing up. Your socioeconomic background contributes. The… — Maurice Clarett Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
I've been in leadership roles on Broadway, and it's one thing to lead a Broadway company - you're with those people for… — Merle Dandridge Copy Share Image
I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I feel like I've finally got to this place that I really want to be. The place where, in my fantasy, the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they’re not chosen. We… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat… — Lisa Ann Walter Copy Share Image
I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film… — David Small Copy Share Image
