Quotes About Character

I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I've never done anything but respect Mark Hunt.

Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.

I had some good Alabama raising. You might do something wrong, but you wouldn't do it but once.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it's amazing.

I want my roles to be different which is why Ram in 'Ramayan,' Maan in 'Geet' and now Yash in 'Punar Vivaah' are distinct from each other.

Producer Ram Mukherjee was making 'Hum Hindustani' and he wanted to cast me opposite Sunil Dutt. But it was decided that I would look diminutive before him and the character too was such that she portrays herself to be opposite of what she is.

I played Ram in 'Ramayan' for two years and I learnt to be a good human being from that character.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

I think I just wanted to run after my dad died, so I ran to Australia. It's only looking back that I think that, though. I never would have done anything like that before; it was so out of character.

I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.

For the longest time, I was in random cold matches for 30 minutes and tore the house down for no reason, and everyone complained, 'Why isn't he in some kind of a story?'

Getting a random star whose voice is not the right fit for the character but simply adds star value is avoidable as that can actually irk the audience.

Some guys are real noble guys, like Rich Franklin or Randy Couture. These guys are just really good people who happen to fight.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.