You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I usually experiment with posture and physical attributes that may inform the character. Next, my impression gets a nice injection of inspiration… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
“All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in… — St. John Vianney Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Oliver Stone will never be happy with the first take. He wants more than that. When youre delivering your lines, hell stop… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are… — Wilson Cruz Copy Share Image
I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character… — Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
“The morality which emerges from the observation of the whole animal kingdom may be summed up in the words: "Do to others… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice,… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled… — Jennifer Jason Leigh Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art… — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
“Villalobos had always been eager to work in law enforcement. When he was in high school, he assembled a group of boys… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
“I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There's more empathetic representations than we're used to seeing. I honestly feel like in the early days of Hollywood, women did have… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
![“[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack…” quote by Viggo Mortensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/viggo-mortensen-1554_america_captain-fantastic-it-s-a-great-story-it_2013800.jpg)
![“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world…” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/034/meryl-streep-1078_cases_how-do-i-do-that-preparation-for-film-ju_2076783.jpg)
