Quotes About Character

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.

I acted as a mood builder in 'Love Rain,' so I thought it was going to be a similar role in 'Reply 1997.' Then I found out it was for the role of Yoon Yoon Jae, so I said no. I didn't think that I was in the position to take such a cool character.

As a former reporter, I wrote 'The Scarecrow' quickly - I didn't have to think about what the character would do the way I do with Harry Bosch.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

The belt doesn't represent me; it's how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.

If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

It's more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn't that they have to be good people. It's that they have to be people.

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

Representation is actually when the character doesn't have lines, but the camera is lingering on them in their thoughts after something happened, and then we get to see them walk to their car. You really need to follow a character in order to understand what they're going through.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

My character is very organic and an authentic representation of who I am as a person at the time. As a 28-year-old, I'm different as a man than I was as an 18-year-old. As you grow as a human being, the character evolves.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them.

Djesse,' essentially, is this spirit. It's this sort of character, very much with some childlike energy, which permeates all of this music... The first album represents kind of pre-dawn, to that moment at the end of the morning when everything's very much alive.

As a manager, first and foremost I want a team with a good mentality, a team with character, a team that represents the club and the fans.

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

This guy Jimmie Rivera, I like his attitude. I like what he represents. He's a hard-working guy, he's a respected guy, a respectful guy.