I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. These are the seven virtues that lead to a full and… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
“The stubborn critic would say: 'What is the benefit of these sciences?' He does not know the virtue that distinguishes mankind from… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great… — Adhir Kalyan Copy Share Image
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show,… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it… — Richard Roxburgh Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Anakattil Chackochi was a titular character that appealed to all irrespective of age and my son, as a kid, used to call… — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to acting, it's about creating a character and bringing forth a director's vision. It's a weird feeling, because with… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought,… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and… — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness,… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
Never hurt anyone by your greediness & dishonesty.Greediness & dishonesty robs your own self being as person of character & if your… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
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