On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of 'American Dad' titled 'I Can't Stan You,'… — Paul Butcher Copy Share Image
Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
[Ralph Angel] was really about figuring out the humanity aspect of the character and not really paying attention to certain things like… — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted… — Paula Polk Lillard Copy Share Image
“Every character has a back story. It’s what makes them fully formed and believable. But resist the urge to describe your character’s… — Karen Sandler Copy Share Image
I was living in a house in the West Village of New York and trying to be Carrie Bradshaw. I wrote a… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That's what Martin Luther King… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image