Quotes About Character

You can look back on a lot of things and things that could have been changed, but ultimately those things make you who you are. It builds character. I'm OK with that.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'

Maybe I've got a bully's face, but I like playing baddies.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

I'm the type of person, you know, I don't throw nobody under the bus for nothing.

I wouldn't say I am a businessman.

The thing I love about Donald, it's time this country is run by a businessman and not people with their hands out, and Donald doesn't have his hands out. I not only consider him as a friend, but if people get to know Donald Trump, I think they'll know what I'm talking about. He's one of the greatest human beings I've ever met in my life.

All businessmen are scum.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.