Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I always view auditions as the first and last time I'll ever do a character, so that's how I like to see… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters,… — Ally Walker Copy Share Image
I love acting. It's what I've done all my life, and to me, it's a lot easier than doing reality television because… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
“When we are conscious with morality and our duty, we become unpopular as many wish to believe in making matters to their… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
The media character-assassinated me and perceived me as this monster. When you look at my record ... I jumped a taxi as… — Willie Mason Copy Share Image
I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think it's cool to play characters who are very joke-y and yet you can show a total serious, very somber side… — James Phelps Copy Share Image
You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
I always tell young, up and coming professional wrestlers, when you're trying to play a character that's not really you, it's going… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded… — Coley Sohn Copy Share Image
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think we need a superhero in India that needs a great amount of writing and character behind it. if someone manages… — Sidharth Malhotra Copy Share Image
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character.… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of… — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist,… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after… — Josh Ryan Evans Copy Share Image
Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image