I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say,… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. — Bjorn Borg Copy Share Image
I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck… — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play. — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it… — Karl Ludwig von Knebel Copy Share Image
Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I'm interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they… — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
Bechdel Test, was named for the comic strip it came from, penned by Alison Bechdel - but Bechdel credits a friend named… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
At Second City and improvising at iO, you're creating a character in an instant. All of a sudden, you're creating this history… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get… — Ryan Cabrera Copy Share Image
The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The character of man as an ego centered individual who desired knowledge of reality so that he could further his dominance over… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right… — Eleanor Duckworth Copy Share Image
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just because I've played this character doesn't mean I have any understanding of what Diana was like, at all. Although I'd want… — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one… — E M Forster Copy Share Image
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes.… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
You have respect and reverence for your characters and the fact that you're going to epitomize that person for the rest of… — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image