Quotes About Character

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of that right.

I appreciate everything that happened in Sacramento. It was character building for me, continuing to go out and play hard. I feel like I progressed as a player.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

I've never played for a contract or money or any of those things.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.

I can't stand characters with contradictory information.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

Big dreams bring all sorts of challenges. To meet them, you have to have character, courage and a commitment to contribute to your community.

I hate controversies and want to be in the news for the right reasons.

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

With 'Doctor Who', with the script you have, and the history, I think that people are actually playing the legend rather than the character. Ive been to sci-fi conventions, and Ive met every Doctor Who and assistant.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

He is so true to himself, and so good to other people. Even during tough conversations, I have never worried about him. Because I know Dwane Casey is going to come back tomorrow to try to be better, and I feel the same way. I try to be better, and so I try to be like him that way.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.