Quotes About Character

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.

Oliver Stone might think he's a guy who chews with his mouth open and yells at the hired help, but the George W. Bush I've spent nearly three hours with is a warm, funny, smart, engaged, compassionate, patriotic, decent and honorable man.

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.

We recruit our people for personality. We look for the people person, with innate warmth, sweetness, and intelligence. These are the people who are sending your message out to the customers and potential customers, so we recruit for personality first and foremost.

I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.

All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had more warmth and innocence compared to the other roles that I have acted. I think it was more special in terms of expressing the role.

What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.

There's no one else like Hodor on 'Game of Thrones.' There's no other character with that warmth, humanity, and a little bit of comic relief.

A good cartoon is always good on two or three levels: surface physical comedy, some intellectual stuff - like Warner Brothers cartoons' pop-culture jokes, gas-rationing jokes during the war - and then the overall character appeal.

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

I have an intense personality, and a lot of the qualities that the Ultimate Warrior had still apply to my everyday life.

When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him.

I don't believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it's like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.

The Ultimate Warrior was explosive, confident, heroic, and ready to get into battle. He was a character who had his own set of rules.

When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.

I was one of the first guys to talk about their characters in the third-person, and I think the character of the Ultimate Warrior certainly is a legend.