Quotes About Character

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.

That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.

None of us are perfect, but the truth is important and it is something we should all strive for.

I think we're innately good. But it doesn't mean we're gonna do good all the time. It means you have to strive.

Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.

When my kids grow up, my goal is someday, someone will come up to them and say, 'Your dad was an amazing person.' Not saying I was an amazing fighter but a genuine person. That's what I strive for.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.

To me, I love being able to see some of John C. Reilly's face in Ralph, and some of Sarah Silverman in Vanellope. That there are hints of them there. In the broad strokes, they are there.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

My grandmother always told me that regardless of what the world gives you, stay humble. Stay strong in your beliefs, and be honest. And when you're wrong, be a man and say you're wrong. And be strong when you're right.

All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

God does things and put certain things in front of you to see how strong you are.

Strong characters are needed in the game.

That's my ideal man - a bit geeky but strong.