’24’ is a pretty serious show – there isn’t a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a...

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

Evil is just . . . so harsh. I prefer ethically unfettered.

Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going...

God doesn’t act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that’s a reflection of another character.

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don’t like. It’s hard to say why, and often a difficult opinion to change. Luckily, there’s no steadfast rule stating that we must like...

I don’t really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I’ve seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary...

I’m 25, so I’ve already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it’s on a general scale because I haven’t studied at a wizard’s school.

I’ve been forced to deal with my character assassination.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I’ll go there.

I didn’t want to be greedy. It’s a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

You speak of the good conduct of your ancestors. As your own conduct is under discussion, and not theirs, I cannot see how their former good character can at all serve your present purpose. Fortunately...

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Despite everything, I’m proud of the girls. They showed heart. They showed character and class.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make...

I’m looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

People always tell me I’m nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He’s a character who’s very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you’re...

I don’t like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill...

You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you’re hard. You’re a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but you’re a pain in the ass.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

I feel like ‘Gossip Girl’ isn’t really ‘Gossip Girl’ anymore when they’re away at school because they don’t go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much...

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

I did an episode on the TV show ‘Awake,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really hard.’ To do that so fast and to do that, if it’s very successful, for nine months out of the...

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

Most people make it difficult to understand with their lifestyle & stand especially to a helping hand if they don’t understand or they don’t want to understand as whom they should accept as their friend.

Real action without the passion is difficult, but the real passion without the compassion is impossible.

Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others’ values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

Once you’ve figured out who you are and whose you are. You will no longer have any desire to hang around people who do not appreciate who you are.

You make the choice concerning who you associate with on a daily basis. Whenever there are people around you who continually gossip or nag, you have the option to entertain that nonsense or leave it...

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium,...

In real life people do occasionally act out of character or do things we wouldn’t normally expect them to do. In fiction, there should be a good reason for a character to do something outside...

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

In writing lyrics – well, for me, anyway – it’s about getting into character, you know? ‘Who is writing this?’ In the case of the original ‘Thick As A Brick,’ supposedly a precocious, very young...

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family.

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success

The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn’t guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away from...

When I started working on ‘Battlestar Galactica’ in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee ‘Apollo’ Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with...

The fate of the country… does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street...