With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I think, as an actor, you create things for your character that you think will make it more personal to you, because… — Kelly Marie Tran Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth.… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
I used to bury myself in character parts and put on a lot of makeup and use a lot of props. At… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
There's some of these villains that are just crazy and they do it just to do it. Then you got The Joker,… — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I think every actor tries to put a little bit of themselves into each character, and I think if you watch very… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror… — David Naughton Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series,… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
“When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that." Solin, character in The… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
For me, the first thing that I respond to - whether it's doing a play or movie or television or anything -… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
“Some have accused me of a strange design Against the creed and morals of this land, And trace it in this poem… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
Zen says: Remain true to your freedom. And then a totally different kind of being arises in you, which is very unexpected,… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to… — Kurt Angle Copy Share Image
I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Obviously, I'm a fan of satire. I'd debate anyone, but it would have to be the actual person. That would be my… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image