A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.