If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You attract people by the qualities you display. You keep them by the qualities you possess. — Babloo Copy Share Image
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly. — Nathalie Emmanuel Copy Share Image
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever. — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.” — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I think getting something together to showcase your voice is important. You can also watch cartoons and play games and just kinda… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Ruby’s stories didn’t have morals. They meant one thing in the light and one thing in the dark and another thing entirely… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While the emergence from embeddedness in the interpersonal frees one from the subjectivity of constructing one's morality on the bases of arbitrary… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image