Quotes About Character

Some of the best kids I coach were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood.

My grandmother knew nothing about sports. She still didn't even when I went to the NBA. She never really cared too much about sports. She only cared about me being a good person.

They didn't have a lot, but my grandparents taught me the important stuff: that hard work and character, matter. When I got my acceptance (and scholarship) to college, it felt like a dream come true.

Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.

As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters I play to have a graph.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

The ability to play different people, grasp at what is running in their head and be somebody completely different from who I am, is fascinating.

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

That's how things work: you be who you are, and then people like you. They gravitate.

You can't worry about looks. It's about the inside at the end of the day because we're all going to get old and gray one day.

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

What I learned from Barack Obama the person is that you can be a great leader and a good person at the same time and that the way to be the best kind of leader is to be decent to the people around you.

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

I want to be a great person, not just a great artist.

Evra, besides being a great professional, is a great person.

I know, everywhere I go, I have the door open because I am a great footballer and a great person.