Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play. — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective. — Willy Mason Copy Share Image
One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
“The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations,… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
My character has to be alive. It can't be a mere prop, and it has to have a life of its own.… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain,… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“Using Maslow’s insights, you can define higher-level values appropriate to your message, brand, and audience. Then, using what we learn from Joseph… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance.… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
