Quotes About Character

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

The best of men That e'er wore earth about Him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.

Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.

I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

As an actor, it's hard to approach any character with negatives.

Both films and TV have their compunctions, their positives and negatives. For example, I explored a character at great length in 'Maryada'... which can be the ultimate high for an actor, but I won't get this luxury as a film person.

I never thought I'd be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to know how to carry myself; I had to act like I was older than I was.

My wife, Melissa, and I, together with our neighbors, try to create experiences for our kids that build character. We want our kids to exercise their muscles and their minds.