Quotes About Character

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

It's really cool to do, like, a 'Harry Potter' evolution because you can really take your time with the character development: really, like, don't rush past the implications of great power and great responsibility.

I've never been more comfortable in a part than with Colonel Potter.

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

I lost 35 pounds before I did 'I, Tonya' and then I had to put it back on for that.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

The most powerful moral influence is example.

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

By my very nature, I would never achieve a great level of consistency. That's my appeal and my downfall rolled into one.

My game is characterised by consistency, and that is what has brought me to Liverpool and helped me grow and develop. I like to make simple saves. I don't make saves for the camera.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

As a captain, I think it's important that the players really know who you are and what you stand for, what your beliefs are, and to be consistent in those if things are going good or things are going bad.

I like to measure people by their accomplishments in life and how they consistently act.

I guess I have a strong constitution.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.