Quotes About Character

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I live the life of Scrooge McDuck.' The other side was, 'I need your money. Give me money.'

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.

A human being has a lot of sides, like a kind of diversity, so it's like a good side, a bad side, a crazy side, a normal side, like a man-ish side, a woman-ish side.

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

On stage, I like to portray my different sides as much as possible.

I had to always decide - am I playing Will in the scene, or is it the monster, or is it a little bit of both? I had to show two different sides of one person in a scene. They were definitely very opposites, because Will is this sweet little innocent sort of kid, and the monster is fierce; he's intense. You really have to show both sides.

I think Bellator gets it, they want to build a character around each and every guy on the roster. They want to build up the names and let people see the real sides of them and they can build that up.

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.

The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.

One of our jobs as screenwriters is to never lose sight of the character.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.

There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

I don't think I have a signature.

My character is Toni Topaz, and she's from the new-generation Archie Comics. I will be rocking the signature pink hair.

The great thing about Satan is it's kind of like Hamlet. Everyone puts their own signature on it in a way, whether it's Al Pacino or little old me.

I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again.

I signed 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon' only for a year. But the producer requested me to stay on, as the show had just started to make money. I carried on, and in the process, the character became very popular. When I finally gave up, changing the actor for that character was difficult, so the show ended.

Whatever the changes, from one era to the next, Pocono has maintained its character and significance to me, and it always will. My family shares this sentiment.

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.