Quotes About Character

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.