When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I have sought for something in this world beyond the pleasures both of virtue and of senses...I can assure you that at… — Mika Waltari Copy Share Image
When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got… — Bubba Smith Copy Share Image
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something… — Osho Copy Share Image
I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And… — Elodie Yung Copy Share Image
Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
You want to be challenged, so you feel like you want to get up and wrestle with the character or enjoy the… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
“There are certain prejudices attached to the human mind which it requires all our wisdom to keep from interfering with our happiness;… — Anne Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then… — Clifford Irving Copy Share Image
Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people don't really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I'm a… — Divine Copy Share Image
The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
“Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he… — Yajnavalkya Copy Share Image
I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, 'You have to play this.' You have to… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more focused on character development and showing more of my character's emotions and persona inside the ring rather than… — Bobby Roode Copy Share Image
When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A pretty face might have wrinkles on it and demolished but a pretty heart keeps getting prettier till the end. Inner beauty… — Anas Copy Share Image
The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous,… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character.… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
