Quotes About Character

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.

The light of a great man shines for generations to come.