The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the… — Pat Pattison Copy Share Image
The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside… — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
I think a lot of acting is about the removal of self-consciousness. The actor is going to be in front of a… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I look for the essence of a story and a human angle that I think audiences can relate to. I also look… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
The thing I love about these Star Wars characters is that I kind of believe we're all just stewards, temporary caretakers. Darth… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that… — Daisy Fuentes Copy Share Image
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than… — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
I say characters who are strong and wrong just have an assuredness about them that you can't even wrap your head around,… — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people… — Peter MacNicol Copy Share Image
To me, morality and family is more important than anything else in life. You don't get a second chance at it. Vanity,… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Humor borne out of cruelty happens to be the easiest and therefore lowest form of comedy: It is cheap stuff and it… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I can honestly say Ive never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams Copy Share Image
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a… — Sarah Baker Copy Share Image
It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
In order to inhabit a villain, you mustn't care what the audience think of you. That's not why you are there. You… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it.… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
