Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

Victor Garber

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

Vincente Minnelli

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

Verne Troyer

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

Wes Bentley

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Zoe Saldana

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

Zach Woods

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

Jerome Flynn

To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.

Jessica Lange

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

Robert Forster

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

Rodrigo Santoro

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

A Clockwork Orange

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless.

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Dune

It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.

Earthly Powers

Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

The most important thing for morale was to maintain a united front among the officers.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High. But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

The First Circle

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Guards! Guards!

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo