Quotes About Character

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.

If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.

Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.

God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values, attitudes, and character.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.