Quotes About Character

Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.