Quotes About Character

When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.

Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government.

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.

People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.

Please don't think that I got married on TV for publicity. I already enjoyed a huge fan following, courtesy my character in Bidaai.' Instead, the controversy has traumatized me.

I don't live for publicity or glory.

Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villainous. He's risen and fallen multiple times in the ways that pretty much no other character can dream of.

Here's the deal: 25 years' worth of Deadpool. This movie comes out 25 years to the day we published him at Marvel, and you couldn't get a better gift if you're a 'Deadpool' fan.

When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance again.

I'm not really anything like Puck - I'm worse!

You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

For the role of 50-year-old Sivasami in 'Asuran,' Dhanush has put in phenomenal effort. With his extreme level of dedication, he pulled off the challenging character effortlessly.

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.