Quotes About Character

Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can't imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?!

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.

One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might have been.

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.