Quotes About Character

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

There are certain roles - say, terrorist roles - that if I don't feel like it's something truthful, I'm not going to do it.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

I just try to stay focused and show the goodness in me to people.

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.