Quotes About Character

A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.

Effi sente sì il bisogno di parlare, ma non quello di dire tutto ciò che le pesa sul cuore, e molte questioni le risolve tra sé e sé. È espansiva e chiusa nello stesso tempo, quasi si nascondesse; insomma è un carattere tutto particolare.

Our quality of being determines our quality of doing.

Your action, what you do, depends on who you are. The quality of your action depends on the quality of your being. [...] So there is a link between doing and being. If you don't succeed in being, you can't succeed in doing.

We are not noble by birth. We are noble only by virtue of the way we think, speak, and act.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are. We

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.

I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.

With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.

I'm still mad at Josh Charles for dying on 'The Good Wife.'

I have a journal, and every character that I play, I write as the character: how I feel about things and how I'm going to play it.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

When I read something, first I have an instinctual, emotional response to it. But of course, acting isn't only just feeling an instinct for what's going on in the moment with the character. You have to be able to carve it out and consider, follow, and create the whole journey that the character you play is going through.

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but people sometimes mask their insecurities with confidence.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

A lot of people judge you on your height, your wingspan, but it's really about the will and the determination that defines a person.

You try not to judge the characters you're playing.