Quotes About Character

Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

I've never been one of those guys who wants to put up titles and championships and run around and brag.

I was this sort of floozy in 'The Rag Trade,' and 'Mr Digby Darling,' and 'Now, Take My Wife' - the titles say it all.

You have to be honest about who you are.

I have to be honest with you: When the FBI let me out of prison early to advise the agency on preventing fraud, I wasn't a changed person. I wasn't rehabilitated. But when I started working with the FBI, one of the most ethical groups of men and women in the world, I couldn't help but have some of that character rub off on me.

I think you have to be honest and not try to be somebody that you really aren't.

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character.

You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

To be honest, prestige is probably the last thing I focus on.

I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.

Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that I try to be honest with the character, with the writing. I'm not a tricksy actor; I'm not exactly a scenery-chewing kind of actor.

I actually read 'The Last Jedi' before 'The Force Awakens' came out. It totally helped me, though! The idea of this franchise that I already knew was such a big cultural thing, I was sort of given this freedom to be honest with that character and not have this pressure of making her something else that we had already seen in this universe.

The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.

To be honest, I came up with the Carmella character completely on my own.

I really love playing a character that's a little younger than me, to be honest. Because even if it's just three years, I can bring perspective into it.

To be honest, even I was tanned three shades darker in 'Love Sonia.' The fact that people were able to connect to my character was very important. Why should we not have that kind of makeup?

One has to be honest to the story and choose actors accordingly.

I try to be honest. I try to take the high road. That's all I can do.

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

All you can really do is try to be a good person and try to make good decisions and try to survive.