“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first.… — David Wenham Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I don't think I change, but it definitely makes me aware of some of the things that are inside of me. Actually,… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick… — Sarah Kendzior Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I feel like I always learn when I'm writing, even when I'm not writing about myself. I'm careful not to judge; I… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way,… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Moral posturing is part and parcel of temptation. It does not invite us directly to do evil - no, that would be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I realized that Reuben was a young man who really wanted to be taken seriously, because he was dismissed for being… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
At the time, I used to say, "We should market this like Everybody Loves Raymond. It's just a guy dealing with his… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I think some of the most beneficial things being an artist has brought to me in film is just you're not afraid… — Common Copy Share Image
My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“Might not certain vices have the same relation to character that the rigidity of a fixed idea as to intellect? Whether as… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are… — Donna Murphy Copy Share Image
In WWE there's a huge degree of acting you need to have to become legendary, to become popular. You have to become… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For… — Brock Lesnar Copy Share Image
