Quotes About Character

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

I'm a lot more focused on character development and showing more of my character's emotions and persona inside the ring rather than just going move after move after move.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

If a comic is himself, there'll be things he can't do - because he has to adhere to that persona.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

I never manufactured my persona.

I've been called worse things by better people.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

Learn what you are and be such.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.