Quotes About Character

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

On the other side, if Im playing a good guy, then he has some problems too. Thats what makes people interesting, in life and in fiction.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

As a fanboy myself, one of the fun things about the gig has been every time I get a new script, I get to find out more about his day - to-day life and what goes on and what his relationships are.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.