Quotes About Character

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

Earn the right to be proud and confident.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

Bullying is not going to make your mom proud. It's not going to pay your bills. It's nothing to be proud of.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.

The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.

A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.

The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character.

I'm not serving in the same party as Boris Johnson. He's proved that he's incapable of holding high office, never mind being prime minister. He's not true to what he believes in.

Whatever I had to prove in the 'Flash' world about myself as an actor, I proved as Henry Allen.

Why bad people - who are bad to other people - keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

I don't want to be one of those guys that people just talk about. I'm not good with people talking about me. I'd rather be the guy that just goes out and proves himself, and there's nothing left to say.