Quotes About Character

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don't.

How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I love the smell of the Earth. I'm a good cook my friends say. I love cooking for my friends. So I'm totally the opposite of being evil. I think only if you're a good person can you be very evil onscreen.

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.

I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

I don't want to be known as a 'player.' I don't want to give plastic smiles on television and say 'No comments.'

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

My favourite actor is Denzel Washington, he's a smooth character so he could play me too!

My character from 'Boys Over Flowers' enjoyed being in love; he was romantic and smooth.

I have been acting over 3 decades now, so I think after all these years of experience I can get into any character very smoothly.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?