The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I often played the nerdy friend or the goofy sidekick or the sort of naïve movie character in some ways. — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
For me, it's always more exciting to play someone who is not at all like me. — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders. — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
If someone is judging you without knowing the content of your character, don't listen to them. — Jazz Jennings Copy Share Image
Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show. — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability. — Juan Pablo Di Pace Copy Share Image
Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do,… — Franck Khalfoun Copy Share Image
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates Copy Share Image
I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When the people you've already worked with are very talented and you know what they can do, if you think of a… — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Baltimore was never intended to be anything other than this original novel that Chris Golden and I did together. There was never… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
