Quotes About Character

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

I've been your yellow M&M for, oh, at least two decades or so, and I've done a lot of other animated stuff in between.

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

Since I was seven years old, they say 'he's nice, he's nice.' Yes, I'm nice, but that's not all I am.

What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

A lot of people want to talk about me and my hazing. Yes, I did. I make no apologies about it whatsoever.

Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that's where the energy of the character is.

Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering who a character is and the detail of how they walk and what kind of shoes they wear and what did they do yesterday and what's important to them. I definitely advise actors to learn about the craft.

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.

Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

Baby Yoda is universally cute, hands down.

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.