Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
I’m not a villain, I’ve never hurt anyone. I’m just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
My favorite part about working in theater is the rehearsal process. I absolutely love the rehearsal process. Working out the characters, figuring the character out, and the relationships between the different characters. I love all of that, which, unfortunately in film, you get very little opportunity to have.
A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
I don’t think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
I don’t think you can create culture and develop core values during great times. I think it’s when the company faces adversity of extraordinary proportions, when there’s no reason for the company to survive, when you’re looking at incredible odds – that’s when culture is developed, character is developed.
Every person has a different view of another person’s image. That’s all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that’s who you are.
I’m sure some of the characters in ‘X-Men’ had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character’s pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There’s no acrobatics or anything.
When you’re writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
I’ve seen some of those comments and they hurt me a little bit, saying ‘This guy’s a cheater.’ And I feel like if you know me, you know my character, and just my person, you know that’s not what I would do, not what I would ever do.
My debut film, ‘Madras Cafe,’ is a political thriller in which John Abraham plays an army officer. My character’s name is Ruby Singh, and I play John’s wife, with all the strappings of an army man’s wife.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
As long as the character is interesting and I have something to do as an actor, there is no reason to turn it down.
You’ve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume – they need to know who the character is, what they’re like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.
I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn’t know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.
I got spoiled on ‘Breaking Bad.’ Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
I don’t mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it’s not for me.
We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and – for the sake of others – to run toward the danger.
Weight loss can change your whole character. That always amazed me: Shedding pounds does change your personality. It changes your philosophy of life because you recognize that you are capable of using your mind to change your body.
Character is long-standing habit.
I don’t think of myself as a character actress – that’s become a phrase which means you’ve had it.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Everyone knows what it’s like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama – a character who’s always making the right decisions is boring.
I liked ‘Scream of the Banshee’ because it was a real challenge. I thought, ‘How am I going to pull off this character?’ But, I also thought, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to go for it.’ He’s got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
I’d rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn’t be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting ‘character.’
I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn’t acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
Military leaders aren’t made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche – something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
In Telugu filmdom, audiences like to see their hero dance, fight and play a larger-than-life character. It’s precisely why most of our commercial films do extremely well and get remade too.
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
You can tell a lot about a man’s character by watching him win or lose money.
If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.
I am a method actor, but I’m also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don’t have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don’t, then they’re a cartoon character.
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist’s search for truth.
I’m tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get.
I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it’s always been that way, but at the same time, it’s part of my job to see what kind of job I’m doing and to get a perspective on where I’m taking the character.
I’m a character actor.
I’ve always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it’s like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That’s the actor’s craft – using yourself to create a character.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It’s a test of character, for individuals and nations.
So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.
It’s nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I’m blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that’s where the energy of the character is.
