Quotes About Character

Part of what makes college football great is what you learn playing it. Being selfless, learning how to go through adversity as a group, learning about perseverance.

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.

I've always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Playing a sadhu is not easy at all.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.

The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

When they first asked me to do 'Hulk,' my first instinct was to say no because I didn't think I had anything to say with the character, especially when they said, 'Please do what you did with 'Daredevil,' whatever that was.'

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody that was at Walter Reid with me, you know I see it almost as a form of character.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.