Virginia Woolf Quotes
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
Quotes to Explore
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools.
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I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh.
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It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.
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Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
