There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
“... You saved me from a life filled with absurd prejudice and morality and allowed me to grow...” — Julie Maroh Copy Share Image
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
My debut film, 'Madras Cafe,' is a political thriller in which John Abraham plays an army officer. My character's name is Ruby… — Raashi Khanna Copy Share Image
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems… — Donald Pleasence Copy Share Image
You do 'New Girl,' you play a character like Schmidt, you crave as an actor afterwards to just do something different. — Max Greenfield Copy Share Image
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true. — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I hate shows, personally, where people stand around tossing stuff at each other, and any character can say any line, because you… — Bill Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Million Dollar Man the character is actually a Vince McMahon original. It was presented to me and Vince kind of started… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain. — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are… — Kriti Kharbanda Copy Share Image
“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the… — William James Copy Share Image
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly,… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
