Quotes About Character

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

I'm a good guy, and I'm a pretty good drummer, by the way.

I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

I could watch 'There Will Be Blood' all day long, and Daniel Plainview is a terrible person - but he's still compelling to watch. That's what makes me want to engage and see what happens next.

I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.

I think Batman is a great character in that he has a lot of internalization, and his heroics come from a dark place.

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.

At 36, I think I should be more mature and handle characters with darker shades.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

I'm not one of those actors who wants to live in some kind of dark character and wants to live in the darkness so much that no one around me has any fun.

There's this list on Internet Movie Database that I'm on, and it's called 'Actors with High Body Counts.' I'm always playing the bad guy.

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

From day one I knew Farooque Sahab was a great guy.

There's bad apples in every type of job, whether it's sports or normal day-to-day jobs.

That's the true meaning of being a leader: being able to deal with the consequences and take the responsibility for it. That's who I want to be.