I love being presented a character that boggles my mind. I have to do a lot of work and explore how I… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I haven't had the opportunity to play the main 'axis of evil' character before, so 'Vincenzo' serves as another challenge to me. — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I should have asked for credit - but he has no idea how amazing it is that a character that was written… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
“A substantial good drawn from a real evil, is of the same benefit to society as if drawn from a virtue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man’s virtue is… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
When I wrote for Eazy, I wrote for the character. Everybody knew Eazy loved girls, so I would make him funny, even… — The D.O.C Copy Share Image
There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she… — Ludivine Sagnier Copy Share Image
From my personal experience, I've put on and lost weight according to each character's requirement, which has taken a toll on my… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
“People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there’s just what you can do, and what you can’t. Well, I could. And I… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
For moral judgment, I think the most interesting trends in neuroscience are the ways in which judgments vary as a function of… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
People always think I'm this zany character. But I think I just see the funny side of life, I don't see the… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
I was raised in the theater and I started acting when I was nine. To me, the idea of being an actor… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
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