My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Stern endorses Pascal’s maxim “To understand is to forgive.” In fact, one of the most exciting opportunities in being a writer, he… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me… — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say… — Jerome Richardson Copy Share Image
Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there.… — George Newbern Copy Share Image
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do… — Vicky Kaushal Copy Share Image
I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem… — Daniel Mays Copy Share Image
“In Christianity … morality is even made the criterion of piety; but ethics have nevertheless a subordinate rank, they have not in… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In… — Alfred Jodl Copy Share Image
Good people are everywhere, the difference between a good individual and a awesome successful individual is the effort, commitment and the hustle… — Ricardo Housham Copy Share Image
Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
I played a little football but it was nothing like boxing. One on one. Me vs. you. You win, you win. I… — Demetrius Andrade Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you.… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“The moral judgments and acts of the soul all involve an exercise of reason, so that it is impossible to separate the… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Ice,' in the beginning when I got the script, felt like a show that was searching for what… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
“It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I am a director's actor. I love the environment of the set, I want to be there and I try to understand… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
