Quotes About Character

Being an Olympic athlete doesn't change who you are as a person.

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I think everyone deserves a second chance. If you come back from missing one Olympic games and serving a four-year ban, you are a pretty determined and reformed character.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.

I respect the game, on and off the field.

I'm a big believer in being the same person on and off TV.

Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for.

I won't necessarily say it's just about football. It's with everything in life. I just wanted to be a man about my business, and that's on and off the field.

If I do the right things on and off the field that's how a player is going to learn.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

When we decided to make 'DMC5,' one of the things we said off the bat is, 'Let's make a new character.'

One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration.