Cases Quote by Glen Duncan

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between…

— John Kani

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even…

— Matthew Macfadyen

“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil…

— Ian Fleming

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself…

— Philip Sidney

“I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good LeChiffre. The Devil has a rotten time and I always…

— Ian Fleming

If you don't have a good character you have nothing. Character portrays the moral values of a person.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only…

— Anthony Burgess

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then…

— Rachel Weisz

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

— Theresa Villiers

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then…

— Philip Zimbardo

“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte