Quotes About Character

You are as crooked as a bank robber if you do not pay your debts on time.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.