Quotes About Character

A man without enemies is a man without character.

This is a sad town," he said. "One can be here 10 years and not make enough friends to count. Anything with any character, any history, they will tear it down and they will put in a neon sign. Or something in plastic.

A rookie centre from Saskatoon, "Endo" was as laidback as they come, kind of the team's Spicoli.

A nation's moral flag flies in the spirit of its people.

I know that character exists from the outside alone. I know that inside the body there's just temperature.

Be original. Be true. Be you.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

But of course this only tries to make a magic out of being black, as if racial self-love and solidarity were the same thing as individual will and character—as if "black pride" could do the individual's hard work of developing into a person who can compete successfully in the modern world.

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

Breaking Bad is one of my favorite shows, of all time.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.