Quotes About Character

I never thought of myself as an odd one or different in any way…I just had a way, a way that was mine and mine alone. A way that was maybe a bit peculiar, but I liked that. I liked the fact that other people weren't odd in the same way… I felt that being odd suited me… My oddness had a certain something, I thought. A style. A style that belonged to me. Then it became a habit and I no longer thought about my odd style, that was how I was and that was that.

Pam: Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?

If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.

There were definitely parts of my character I didn't approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn't like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I'd survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I'd paid.

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

She's a whore, that one, Pam said.

Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.

Well, they got married. No one pulled a Jane Eyre...

Lillian is one of those disagreeable people who yet have some redeeming qualities, so that you can't write them off entirely—but you sure wish you could.

My God, child, you look like something the cat dragged in!" Eileen bellowed. She was a suspiciously dark-haired woman about forty-five, with expensive clothes from the very best big women's store. Her makeup was heavy but well done, her perfume was intrusive but attractive, and she was one of the most overwhelming women I'd ever met. Eileen was something of a town character in Lawrenceton, and she could talk you into buying a house quicker then you could take an aspirin.

This Peter looked a lot like Eli, but with all the character sanded off.

He had thinning brown hair, broad shoulders, sharp blue eyes, and a suggestion of a gut.

By nature, I was a little guy with big legs - a stocky lad.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

I've played some great ladies. Mame. Agnes Gooch in 'Mame,' when I started out in the '60s... it's a beautiful role.

You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.

It's just kinda what I did: played crazy old ladies.

On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

The biggest thing about 'Lady Macbeth' is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn't be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I'd really like to play Lady Macbeth.

I don't mind acting on TV if I have to play a mature, contemporary character. But I can't play a lehenga-clad lady in a saas-bahu serial.