Quotes About Character

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

I'm one of those people who believes you are what you do.

I worry Mr. Trump believes he's special just because he's Mr. Trump and that the rules don't apply to him and the people around him.

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power of government.

No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

No success, no nothing, no belt, no person can change the way I act, the way I feel.

could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.

We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

Not all great presidents were always good, and neither individuals nor nations are without evil.

The best political figures create the impression that they find everyone they encounter to be what Abigail Adams said Jefferson was: "one of the choice ones of the earth.

You have to appeal to people's best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.

A president sets a tone for the nation and helps tailor habits of heart and of mind.

Honor, duty, country. Those verities, together with a driving ambition and an abiding competitive spirit, had shaped his life and his understanding of the nation.

John Adams had foreseen how central the president would be in American life. "His person, countenance, character, and actions, are made the daily contemplation and conversation of the whole people," Adams wrote in 1790.

no people were ever yet benefitted by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Conscience and character were not incidental to human affairs, but instrumental.