I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history lik….

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history..

I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's ve….

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about lif….

I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their charac….

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not no….

A good poem about failure is a success..

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we hav….

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them..

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion..

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very f….

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors ….

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways..

I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good.….

People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters and animators think they….

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is….

Here we are now, entertain us..

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to act….

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imp….

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in….

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..