It’s all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It’s classic. Every time I’ve tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like...

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep – that’s when I get to spin. But you’re not allowed to spin once...

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass...

Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.

I didn’t set out to be a villain in film. I’m a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

A man’s own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Some people are lucky to find love, others must settle with being liked…

I think there’s this new kind of character; it’s a sidekick-slash-leading man role. People like Zach Galifianakis and Seth Rogen have been really successful in those roles. You don’t have to be this square-jawed, chiseled,...

I think that’s what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement, a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the poems, the pictures and the buildings. Men are its philosophies. They...

The child will grow up and find out things for herself. She will know that I lied. She will be disappointed.””That is what is called learning the truth. It is a good thing to learn...

Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground...

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

There was a saying that a man’s true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

It is advisable to never find faults, flaws and follies in others till it is acceptable to see them either getting closer together or each of them garnering more support of many people like his...

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

I’m unpredictable, I never know where I’m going until I get there, I’m so random, I’m always growing, learning, changing, I’m never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about...

I’m not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I’m not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I...

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I think he is capable of doing it. I helped him a few times last...

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

This speaks to the character of these guys. It’s something. I can’t explain it. This is just an unbelievable group of guys. You don’t win as many games as they have without being different. And...

I’m trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I’m not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man’s character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

You win or you lose, you can do it with character and you can do it with integrity. Effort, how you handle yourself, how you represent yourself – has to be consistent. That’s what we’ve...

Unlike other enduring characters such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ or ‘Tarzan,’ being the ‘Doctor’ allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements...

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we...

The Prophet’s character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.

I want to prove to people that I’m an actor and not just a character.

I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He’s such a character that I love everything he’s in.

Her [Mrs Croft’s] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good...