Quotes About Character

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

I don't want to miss out on the good stuff. As long as the character is good and the show is good, the medium does not matter to me. There are a few makers that I have an enormous trust in and that I know will do an amazing job.

I really miss playing Hansa. I just love her.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

There was something very special about 'Doctor Who', and I did miss it a lot.

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

Not every character that you play is going to be somebody that you like or love, but every character that you play has a story that is worth telling. If you're not the person to tell it, that's one thing. But if you don't want to tell it because you are afraid of the unpopularity of the character, I view that as a missed opportunity.

You can criticize me. You can crucify me. You can love me. You can hate me. Just don't make the mistake of calling me inauthentic, because you'd be a damn liar.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It's how you get up that defines you to a certain extent.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.

I think Mitt Romney is a good man.

At the end of the day, Mitt Romney and Ann Romney are two fine people.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

Hermione Granger is the mix of brain and heart that I've always wanted to be.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

Definitely female MMA fighters, I'm a big mixed martial arts fan, and watching women's MMA grow was definitely an inspiration. We just had an idea for a character and wanted to do a personality that was the opposite of Aang's, and that's how Korra came about.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.