“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.” PeopleTryingWellsRealCharacterHandsFilmGuyActorsKnownMillionsEffectsHugeCostProjectsDollarsDrivenMaking MoneyBudgetsWell Known Author:Dolph Lundgren
“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.” MomentsCharacterPoliticalPoliticsPartyStruggleTerribleCostSucceedMajorityVariousDeceitExpensesPolitical PartiesCunningSupremacyShadyTrickery Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.” MenDoeCharacterPainPrinciplesHonestHonorCostAbuseCreditReputationAttachmentHonourPerilPromptsPretenceGood WordsGood Reputation Author:Thomas Gordon
“The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.” PeopleIfsTryingEndsMomentsCharacterShowsHurtViolenceInvolvedCostGloryImpactMeant To BeEntertainingProtagonistsCathartic Author:Charlie Huston
“Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it's doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It's being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.” WantCharacterPayWillingCostRight ThingDoing The Right Thing Author:Michael Josephson
“No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.” MenMayLongDoeRealSelfCharacterRealityCertainPracticeStruggleVirtueSacrificeGreatnessGoes OnDisciplineIntegrityComfortCostDemandMen And WomenLoyaltyCommandSubstanceBeing RealSelf DisciplineNobility Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.” WayFirstsDoneCharacterCostCreatingConscienceAreas Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie.” PeopleIfsKindCharacterProcessRealizingCostMajorsDigitalTomsJarsCruiseMovie Love Author:Rick McCallum
“It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.” MenHumansWarCharacterPayCostExtraordinarySoldierOne Man Author:Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” KindCharacterKindnessCostAccomplishKindness And CompassionKind WordsInspiring Customer ServiceWords Of KindnessEffective CommunicationAccomplish Nothing Author:Blaise Pascal
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” MenLifeNeedsStatesCharacterHappinessWaitingGoalGrowthChangeVisionStruggleCostStriveWorthyLive LifeTensionProblem SolvingFulfilledSearch For MeaningDischargeMans Search For MeaningStarting Anew Book:Man's Search for Meaning Source: Man's Search for Meaning