Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist. — Gabriel Jesus Copy Share Image
Don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life. — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. — Bob Ley Copy Share Image
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters. — Chuck Leavell Copy Share Image
I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf… — Lauren Lapkus Copy Share Image
I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“As we step into the character’s shoes we experience his or her motivations — including the search for rewards of the tribe,… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk… — Wendie Malick Copy Share Image
I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
