Quotes About Character

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

The people I work with have a very good impression of me for sure, because of how I am.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.