Quotes About Character

I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

We have some of the best in-ring performers in the world, but they are also some of the best characters.

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.

I would love to do things that teach me new skills. Like, I don't know how to ride a horse. And not that I need a film or television project to teach me that, but it's one of the perks of being an actor, inhabiting a character who has experiences and a knowledge that I don't.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I'm a good person and that's what I am at the end of the day.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I like to think I'm a nice guy and have a good heart, and I'm a loyal person.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.