Quotes About Character

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Alfred Molina is one of the nicest people on the planet and a complete master.

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

Arjun's character has brought discipline in my life. Now everything happens in my life well planned. Initially, I used to get up at any time, but now I get up at appropriate time, and I keep a check on my diet.

That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a way you hadn't initially planned on.

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, this incredible array of folks, all taught me a way to carry yourself with dignity.

My characters are not plastic.

Don't think I'm always nice. I know that's how I've been cast... If they want me to be mean, I can step up to the plate more easily than I would like to admit, as my children will tell you.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

If you're passionate about it, speak up about it. Just show up, do your part, and make your voice heard, because at the end of the day, all we have is our voice and our platforms and our character.

Judge people by their behaviour, not their platitudes.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I am happy to play the bad man.

If people are good off the pitch, of course on the pitch it will be easier to play.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

I want to be a good actress, I want to be a good person, and I want to play baseball.

I am not better than anyone else just because I play football.