Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.
I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but...
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave goodbye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always...
She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. Are you an illegal alien?
Are you insane? she replied. Yes. Jeoff didn't even bat an eye as he admitted it. - Arabella & Jeoff
The first time she saw Jag Silvertree she was watering the garden, and her clematis got soaked as she dreamt of melting into his face. The second time she saw Jag she knew she would never feel his...
Claire coaxed free another loop of cloth. The slow side of cotton against cotton matched the soft tenor of her voice. "I have lots of talents Mr. Ryland. Listening is only one of them."
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most...
You can never know enough about your characters
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
I really want to punch you right now. Maybe even break your nose. But I won't because I like this dress.
This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He'd reminded her of an eagle, the...
Growing up she'd heard rumors about the enforcer and how badass he was...
"How about this then." Chase shifted on the bed. Even without looking, Connie knew he was leaning over earnestly, his brilliant, lying black eyes full of sincerity. "I've missed you desperately. I'm...
"Then there's the intelligence that practically radiates from you. Did I ever tell you smart women seriously turn me on?" His thumbs began caressing her cheeks and he bent to whisper close to her ear....
The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she...
Harry, what you know about women, I could juggle.
Jason's fingers itched to draw his sword. He'd met plenty of scary demigods, but he was starting to realize that Nico di Angelo - - as pale and gaunt as he looked - - might be more than he could...
For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.
Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.
Snape's patronus was a doe, said Harry, the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
DuBois's observations were back. She'd largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.
That's all very well, Dumbledore, but, forgive me for asking, why can't you go? They stop. Dumbledore: I can't move against Grindelwald. It has to be you. {beat} Well, I don't blame you, in your shoes...
"Simon," she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the privacy of her thoughts. Moistening her dry lips, she tried once more, and to her...
, she sent back as sarcastically as she was able. She had enough problems without Mikhail treating her as if she didn't have a brain.
Catcher pulled out his phone, rose, and walked away from the table to make the call. "I'm going to advise Chuck of our little breakthrough. Good job, Mallocake." We all looked at Mallory. "Did he just...
Eyebrows of Judgment, Casey said, wiggling his fingers at Gus's face. "We meet again." "Don't talk to my eyebrows"
Also, your father.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...