Quotes About Character

When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.

I'm feeling a lot of pressure because it is first time for me to cast as the main character.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

I want to do roles that are important for the story and not there for ornamental value or to just aid another character in the film which is often a 'friend's role' in mainstream films.

I do not care about the length of my role. But it should make a difference to the story.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

I'm not about hair and makeup.

I, Lesley, I like looking nice. I like doing my hair and wearing makeup and wearing nice clothes. But I don't care what my characters look like.

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

I'm alright with people making up stuff about me, but not when there's a woman involved.

I love alpha males.

I'm not going to thank the man who told me I had no character. I'm not that magnanimous, and he could do with lessons in people management.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as an actor to be honest to the character.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

My mantra when it comes to money is always remember that money doesn't make you. You make the money.

That's the mark of a man, just keeping your head up, right? Not taking the easy way out.

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.

Martial arts is about honor and respect.

had anyone asked, I would have called Jamie Fraser a merciful man. He had been, once. But the years between now and then had been hard ones - and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance, I had thought he still had his kindness, though; and felt a queer pain at the thought of its loss.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.