Quotes About Character

In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.

Acting is a really insular thing.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work.

Integrity reveals beauty.

I can't handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that's very important in a man.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

I have nothing left but my integrity.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

When you live your life with honesty and integrity, there is nothing that anyone can ever take away from you.

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.