It's much easier for me to think in terms of character movement and emotion and story rather than, 'What are some wacky… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
There is something very exciting when you're playing a villain. You're being a rebel within the story because you are breaking the… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
“If you want your sins to be “covered” by the Lord (Ps. 32.1), do not parade your virtues before others. God will… — Thomas Mitrakos Copy Share Image
There's this character, Theo Galavan, who becomes the ringleader for the revolution of villainy in the city of Gotham. He becomes this… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character… — Michael Dorn Copy Share Image
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Absolution – yes, I grasp the notion, but absolution is not the same as redemption, is it? The former is passive. The… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Impossible choices, and I had to start making them. Little trades, like chips at your morality--strip away what you think you're supposed… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
Silat is like kung fu, but close combat, and it has its own traditional character. In a lot of movies in Indonesia,… — Iko Uwais Copy Share Image
Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing… — Amanda Abbington Copy Share Image
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in… — Steve Kanaly Copy Share Image
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I was never reluctant to play this character; the only thing I was scared of was that Bua might be only subjected… — Upasana Singh Copy Share Image
Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than voicing a character. You don't have to worry about what you're wearing; you've got the script in front… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Radically I'm Fine... Emotionally I'm Cool... Sentimentally I'm a Fool... Fundamentally I'm Smart... And for Love I guess I'm Blind... — Josh Guite Copy Share Image
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
