Quotes About Character

I have never been a bad influence in the dressing room.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

My stories are character driven.

I felt that, with 'Zatanna,' I had a chance to do a story about a strong, driven woman.

Most of my films have been very character driven.

As a driver, I will always be the same guy.

In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

If the character you play on screen has to have life, you should dub in your own voice.

When you dub for your own character, it is the last chance to play the part again.

Derek Jeter seems like a cool dude.

I've always called myself 'Mr. Dull Guy.'

Directors would tell me, 'We want you to play a character a little less complex than you are.' Yeah, sure. What they mean is, 'You're playing a dummy.'

Dusty Rhodes was never Virgil Runnells, Dusty Rhodes was always Dusty Rhodes.

Americans should expect far more from a president than merely that he not be provably a criminal. They should expect a president to comport himself in accordance with the high duties of his office.

Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'

My humbleness and the work I do each day speak for me.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

I can earn money any time but I shouldn't lose my respect.

I feel like I've earned respect with how I go about my business, how I carry myself.