Plato Quotes

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Plato

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• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• All of my characters are less than perfect.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Characters
  • Less

• There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Stones

• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Art
  • Know
  • Respect

• The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Want
  • Best

• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Humility

• 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Adventure

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Characters
  • Obstacles
  • Southerner

• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Good
  • Stones

• As I said before, stones to me is meant things that hurt people, things that cause pain and thats what this song is about.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • People
  • Song
  • Pain

• I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Men
  • Stones
  • My Own

• [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • God
  • Truth

• Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • World
  • Why
  • Earth

• I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Reality

• Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Uncomfortable
  • Reform
  • Victims

• Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today.

  

  Bob Bergen
  • Respect
  • Comedy
  • Integrity

• I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

  

  Hayley Atwell
  • Characters
  • Faults
  • Darker people

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Soul
  • Persistence
  • Spite

• I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Live
  • Society
  • Thumbs

• ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

  

  Plato
  • Characters
  • Stones
  • Societies