Quotes About Character

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She's a simple creature.

I don't care about power. I don't care about credit.

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'

Through county cricket all the way up to international cricket, the individual needs to be responsible for his behaviour.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

The money is obviously life-changing in lots of ways. But I'll always be the same Rob Cross.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

I read the 'Nightflyers' novella and knowing that it was something that had been written by George R.R. Martin, knowing how those stories kind of go, I was really curious to see what happened to my character in the source material.

I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.

On 'Black-ish,' I like my makeup to be really natural - so much that I can do it myself. My character is a mother of four and a doctor and a wife, who would not have time to be putting on eyeshadow or curling her lashes.

You create this human being, and then you are that human being for the next six months. It's amazing. I think that's the blessing and the curse of being an actor. You get to be pretty much anything you want to be.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that's who I am.

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.