I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play.… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age...… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
“I've come to believe that virtue isn’t a condition of character. It’s an elected action. It’s a choice we keep making, over… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to… — Sarah Brown Copy Share Image
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on… — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn… — Nancy O'Dell Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“In other words, the fact that every person has the ability to reason and discover natural law, and the divine rights that… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate… — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it's doing the right thing when everyone is looking.… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
When you develop an entire feature length film from scratch the challenge is developing an entire feature length film from scratch! -… — Nathan Greno Copy Share Image
I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do… — Shanola Hampton Copy Share Image
I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script… — Jaime Camil Copy Share Image
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
