Quotes About Character

We don't have to let extremists define us.

In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

The difference between my sister and I is that she is an extreme extrovert. She is right up front and tells you what she feels. I'm the quiet nobody-knows-me type.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

I try and be just completely me on stage. I try and put that across, and people seem to get that personality that I have, so I do try not to become two different people and two different faces.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

For me, the content and the character that I play are the two most important factors.

To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.

You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

Faith idles when character shrivels.