Quotes About Character

I have never been one to seek or want attention or admiration or a pat on the back for what I've done.

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

Jim Comey is either dense or he's pathological.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

Samir is a well composed person. Dolly Bindra tried his patience big time.

My mom was a bit more excitable, but my dad was the most patient man I've ever met.

I'm not sure I'm the prototypical Patriot.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

I don't approach my character in a set pattern. I want to get into the skin of the character. I don't love Manoj Bajpayee; I love all my characters. And that is why people today remember all my roles.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.

Paul Newman made eight of my favorite movies. He chose a certain kind of movie I really identified with.

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

I'm the second wife of Paul Reiser on TV.

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting to classify one of their players as the franchise player. So that was the whole idea, that 'The Franchise' was the franchise player for ECW.

I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's a decent person.

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.