Quotes About Character

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk.

What works for me in 'Indiana Jones' is the fact that I can project myself onto the character. Maybe if I was cool enough, I could do what he does. But I can't do that if the story breaks the rules of reality in too large of a degree.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Men become old, but they never become good.

There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.