I love fantasy. I love thrillers. I love action. I'm all over the place. As long as the story and characters are… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible… — Motti Lerner Copy Share Image
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't have any demarcation and I plan to plunge into any character offered. Why restrict yourself? — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
