I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
When I'm making the movie, I absolutely do. I work so hard, and out of the raw material that is the script… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really.… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I also wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to have the scope, which I felt Merlin has, in his Machiavellian… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to… — Jane Bennett Copy Share Image
The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too… — Christian Carion Copy Share Image
When it comes to acting on green screen, it doesn't really make all that much of a difference to me because how… — Anita Briem Copy Share Image
Executive presence has to do with the whole of the person. It's much more than presentation skill, charisma or savvy. It shows… — Suzanne Bates Copy Share Image
Brad Pitt seems to have no problem getting parts that he wants, nor does Angelina Jolie. Not that I'm saying I look… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
My feeling is that it's one of the very few things that comics can do that you really can't do in any… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of… — John Galt Copy Share Image
One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film... Heterosexuality to me is… — Todd Haynes 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
On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
![“They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few…” quote by Eric McCormack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a5e/eric-mccormack-2915_character_they-the-travelers-know-everything-about_135474.jpg)
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