Quotes About Character

If I could make Panther tough, mysterious, wily, and often at odds with his 'Avengers' comrades, that was a character I'd find interesting.

The cool thing is, I was a little nervous about how they were going to handle Black Panther in his own movie, but then when I saw 'Civil War' and just the perfect way they handled him in that movie, it made me even more excited about a Black Panther film.

I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them.

Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

I see a lot of parallels between my father and Donald Trump.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.

Paris is the most modest girl.

Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.

I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

I was such a fan of Aziz. I watched 'Parks and Rec' like every other self-respecting hipster and loved his character so much and just thought he was so interesting.

I have no issue with Rosa Parks. But I do have an issue with liberals trying to canonize her in order to glorify themselves and legitimize their route to 'progress' through political and racial agitation instead of hard work and character.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

I am partial to Halle Berry's 'Catwoman.'

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.