Quotes About Character

We have to teach goodness to our infants.

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

I suppose for me, with 'Djesse,' I realized fairly early in the process that I also needed a character to walk this path, which in some ways is me, and in some ways is not me. I think of Djesse a bit like the infinite child who can see everything and walk into everything as light as a feather and just alchemize.

For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

My mother was not without her flaws. She did have a lot of flaws, but she revealed her strength and her flaws equally, and I think that's really important. I was very much influenced by that.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

You have to let the costume inform you.

I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me.

The story of 'Lalpan Bibi' impressed me and my character also. It has all the ingredients of a great commercial masala movie.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.

My dad, was the archetypal charming man. If I've inherited even a small bit of what he had that would be enough for me.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.