Quotes About Character

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.

I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

I think good things happen to good people.

I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich with watermen and historic atmosphere. I modeled it after a stunning little town called St. Michaels, but since a lot of bad things happen in Doncaster, I changed the name.

I think each shoot has a different personality.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.