Quotes About Character

Kids are my favorite because they're so pure. They're really mean sometimes because they're super honest, but I trust them as a good judge of character. And they're always so nice to me, so I feel really awesome.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

I've always said this: Edge is purely a character.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book - that's a fantasy - and I don't do fantasy.

I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.

I think, as an actor, I would find it a little run-of-the-mill doing procedurals where it's the same sort of thing week in and week out. Your character doesn't get to grow very much, which, purely from an actor's point of view, you want to see an arc of your character.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

I don't think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.

I left 'L.A. Law' after five years when my contract was up because I felt I had done all I could do with the character. I didn't walk off the show with a three-picture deal to pursue this wonderful film career.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

Integrity is about pursuing bigger goals that are beyond your personal success. If people see you only for yourself, they will not trust you. And, without trust, no growth and success are possible.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

There's so many things that people do on a daily basis that they do as a way of defining who they are. But really, what defines who you are is when circumstances push you to the edge.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.