Quotes About Character

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife.

I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

It's my job to stretch and figure out what I'm capable of, to identify with the character I have chosen to play.

Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent film, is the story being well told? Is it interesting? Is the character interesting? And is there something about the character that may stretch me?

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

My social media is very strict to my character and I've disabled comments on a lot of things because why would the Aleister Black character care about comments?

I'm actually a miserable, authoritarian guy at home... no really, I'm strict.

Most of the times, I am on a strict diet for my characters, but once in a while, I love indulging in a bucket full of ice cream.

My character of Ammaji in 'Solhah Singaarr' is that of strict matriarch who adheres to her values.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.

Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.