Quotes About Character

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.

Koverman is one of my favorite Hollywood characters because she was the brains of MGM, and not many people know about her.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.

I understand that in TV, people like likable people. In film, you can get away with playing a terrible person. In TV, you're in people's homes every week.

I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

I have a very schoolish approach to acting. I like to do my homework, know more about the character, and study it. It's all about the craft.

You have to do your homework for everything. For 'Fukrey,' it seems like I'm just playing a Delhi boy. But he is a Delhi boy from Geeta Colony, which is a different world when it comes to Delhi.

I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.

I think there are many honest businessmen.

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Unfortunately, you cannot find honest people everywhere and thusly, really have to watch what you reveal to certain people before you have really gotten to know their character.

I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.

Honesty has always been very important to me.

It doesn't matter if you're a star or not; what is important is that you do your job with absolute honesty.

Tiggers don't like honey.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.