If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character.… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of… — Joe B Wyatt Copy Share Image
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you. — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in… — Christine Lakin Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s… — Andre Compte-Sponville Copy Share Image
People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area… — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
“for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
One day, a rich dad took his son on a trip to a village. He wanted to show him how poor someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness, the source… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is. — Barry Watson Copy Share Image
With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
For me and my colleagues who have done character roles all our lives, things don't change so easily, but when people respect… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
