Quotes About Character

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

Are you going to show integrity only when someone is watching you - or are you going to show it all the time?

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.