If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Cory Booker was somebody who just speaks kind of plain, and I don't mean that in a bad way at all. But… — Chris Redd Copy Share Image
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in… — Lemuel Haynes Copy Share Image
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
“For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Who we are and how our life is today are mostly the reflection of the choices we've made, to be a better… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
