Quotes About Character

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

A man's character is his fate.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

Historically speaking, my actions speak louder than any words.

While doing 'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom' with Abhishek, I never thought about my dad's and Amitabhji's hit 'Jodi.' I just play my character and don't think about history and the future.

The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, 'We really need to make a change. Let's change this character.' Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.

I'm OK with hitting you, I'm OK with getting hit, I'm OK with cuts, broken leg, broken nose - I've broken my nose five, six times - but I don't need to verbally assault somebody. I don't need to say anything bad about somebody.

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Eric Holder is a decent man.

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

I'm not a guy who holds up a product and says, 'Drink this.'

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.