There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities. — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on… — James Callis Copy Share Image
“We are good not in virtue of what we are but in virtue of what we are not, like darkness lit up… — Kathryn Tanner Copy Share Image
There's a witch under this hair. The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
“Character isn’t something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that… — Billy Marshall-Stoneking Copy Share Image
is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending,… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To be honest, for me, if I really believe in a story and in a character, and I want to tell something,… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live,… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way.… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
My character isn't supposed to be flashy and be over-the-top. I'm supposed to be dirty in the ring. I'm supposed to kick… — Alexa Bliss Copy Share Image
My character Kabir Raichand in 'Haasil' is quite a brat. It's a very naughty character... very impulsive. He does a lot of… — Vatsal Sheth Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of… — James Bryan Smith Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
