Julie Plec Quotes

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

It's asking that never-ending question, 'Who am I?' which motivates me and takes me on a constant journey of self-discovery that teaches me so much. Will Everest make me more cautious? In reality, probably not.

As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

I want to be a good cricketer, but I am a person first and a cricketer second. I won't always be a cricketer, but I will always be a person.

Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.