Quotes About Character

In the morning, I'm like the Antonioni movies. I'm little sad. I haven't the courage to start the day. In the evenings, I'm happier, more alive - like the character I play in 'An Almost Perfect Affair.'

It's true that looks do matter, but they won't give you a long, successful career or a happy marriage.

I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.

The hard times that I've been through have made me the man that I am.

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

Don't let... anybody in the Cowboys organization fool you into thinking they support Greg Hardy. They don't. They support sacks.

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

I don't want to play the lead and look like a hero. I am open to do character roles; what is the harm in it?

There is a real Harold Lee.

My agent wanted me to audition for Dumbledore's character after Richard Harris died. I was asked if I would like to audition for it. But I wouldn't audition for it.

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.

I chose deliberately for Harry Bosch to age chronologically with the books.

I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but it's part of Harry Bosch.

Harry Kane is one of the most professional guys I've ever seen or come across in my life.

John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.

If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.

I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to do things; I was quite the early director. I could make people laugh enough to get their defences down - and then brainwash them.

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.