Quotes About Character

It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

It was a nephilim." "A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled. "Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.

I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for a bit, and then as time kind of goes and wears off a little bit.

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

What Sarah brings to the part is her intelligence, at the same time, she's got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator.

The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.