Quotes About Character

I'm big on integrity.

If you don't have integrity, don't be in cinema.

I'd like my man to be very simple yet highly ambitious, one who chooses to live with real integrity and humanity.

It's not always easy to take the high road when you are hurting, but in the long run at least you still have your integrity and dignity.

I think integrity's important; really important.

I'm an actor so I approached my debut with as much honesty and integrity towards the character that I was given to play.

I started from scratch but I have always acted with honesty and integrity.

I'll tell you this: you can look at all the masculine toughies you want - the Ben Roethlisbergers, the Russell Crowes, the David Petraeuses - but if you want to look at what a man should be - persevering, honest, a person who manifests his intellect into action - you need look no further than Roger Ebert.

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing. I start with the characters and their inner lives.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

The intensity of 'Arjun Reddy' was too much for me.

'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

Eric Young is an excellent heel. I think Eric Young is a really, really good heel because he does things intentionally so that you don't want to cheer him, you don't want to get behind him, and you don't want to support him.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.