Quotes About Character

I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard.

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live... You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

Boxing isn't just about fighting people, it's about being a standard bearer. You become a beacon for the people.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

I hold myself to the highest of standards.

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

Of all the awards given to NFL athletes, the Walter Payton Man of the Year is the one that stands out above the rest to me because of what it represents.

I think if you score lots of goals but nobody likes you as a person then it stands for nothing.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.