Quotes About Character

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Some guys come in and they're super-humble and they get some success and then they change, everything changes. They become too big for other people.

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

Eric Bishoff the evil bastard is an effective character.

I don't know how to play evil.

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

For films, like my serials, I am looking for roles that help me evolve in the character.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

Lead by examples, not words.

There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting.

I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction.

With social media, you take the good and the bad of it. You have to make the most of the opportunities. You can use social media to your benefit to expand your character and gets eyes on you and what you're doing.

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.