Quotes About Character

Green Arrow was a very complicated character to take on because he has archaic weaponry. Catwoman, I think is more of a simple archetype to grasp, so it will be about nuance. But I think you need three or four issues before you say, 'Ah ha! Now I really know how to write this character!' You're carrying them around with you.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel', anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

I was on 'That '70s Show' as the sexy nurse. I like that show, but I hated my character. I was like, 'I will never do anything like this again in my life. I feel crazy.'

If someone arrives, fully functional yet a tabula rasa, how does their environment influence, educate, even mold them? And if that is a nurture question, then where does that character's nature fit in? How does that manifest?

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

Boruc is nuts. He is a very good friend of mine, and so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying he's a nutter. He really is crazy.

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

If I have to play an obnoxious character, try to find a redeeming feature of him. The most obnoxious people in the world were people, and they had had a reason for doing what they did. So you try to find that and let the obnoxiousness come out.

'Mindy' was fun. Other than 'Superstore,' it was the other time I played an elitist, obnoxious idiot.

Nog is just so fun to play. He's not a boring or quiet kid, and he's not too loud or obnoxious. He's just a little different. He's a Ferengi.

The skin of my character in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

I am very observant of people's character.

Vatsal is helpful, observant and chivalrous. What I dislike is that he never experiments with food.