I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister!… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
“The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing. — Chris Burke Copy Share Image
I'm very visual. So even for red carpets, I'll create mood boards. I love a good shared photo album and to tag… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that… — J Hus Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To praise princes for virtues they are lacking in is a way of insulting them with impunity — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Yes, Gimli was a very comedic character, but at the end of the day we understood him almost to be like an… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan, and I didn't grow up with it, I didn't grow up reading 'X-Men' comics. I became a huge… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character. — James Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“that, when it comes to humanity, “the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
I've been playing the same character on Supernatural for the past nine years and while that character has gone through a lot… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
I like Twitter more than Facebook. Twitter is a great way to deliver and get news. In news writing less is more… — Tom Llamas Copy Share Image
“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.” — John Leonard Copy Share Image
Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of… — Jane Horrocks Copy Share Image
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
