Quotes About Character

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a lot of things that I don't get, like I do wish I had more of my own.

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

That's what I love about integrity. Each time we go inside, that's where it is.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.