“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.” — I Ching Copy Share Image
I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it. — Cynthia Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character. — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.” — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is. — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different… — Mackenzie Crook Copy Share Image
If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids.… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The experience of growing up in Detroit helped give me the character necessary to push myself as hard as I did as… — Jerome Bettis Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in… — Mads Mikkelsen Copy Share Image
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Patience is the art of mental stamina and I always wished to meet you in person, Yet I waited in all the… — Nkululeko Goqo Copy Share Image
What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of… — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image