There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares – like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.

But if Crake wanted her to stay longer on any given night, do it again maybe, she’d make some excuse—jet lag, a headache, something plausible. Her inventions were seamless, she was the best poker-faced liar...

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

Nicio viata nu e stricata cu exceptia celei care este oprita. Daca vrei sa strici caracterul cuiva nu trebuie decat sa il reformezi

You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.

An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself is the ultimate agency. He has the power to realize and activate the...

Value all relationships for the lessons they teach. Make sure you learn the lessons well. If not you will repeat those mistakes over and over.Focus on the kind of relationship you do want! Surround yourself...

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

More or less, this was our best against their best. This whole program is built on class and character, and we weren’t going to leave anything up there. They had heart and soul to the...

If we don’t fight for what we ‘stand for’ with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really ‘stand’ for anything?

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character...

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium,...

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Just think how happy you’d be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There’s never been a character that’s looked this extreme.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character – a lead...

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were of common occurrence. The vast majority of these people, government servants, planters, and...

It’s very out of character for him. We’re all very, very worried and we want to see him come home … He and I are supposed to be in Florida for spring break right now.

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure,...

That’s something the defense can hang their hat on. We’re trying to establish our character and our identity. This was a great game, especially for our defense.

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.

There are broadly two kinds of people who worry and fear a lot. One who has built the desire more than his need and another who has got more than what he deserves. And both...

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

Dear,it’s quite clear that people listen only that what they want to hear and especially that which does not create fear of losing their personal interest in the talk, and the rest even if the...

On ‘Glee,’ we often tackle the tough topics that young people face – in fact, my recurring character, Wade ‘Unique’ Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems...

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I’m from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

(When thinking about the Ruth character) I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There’s not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they’d squeal and thrash around. They’d...

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without...

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It’s character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

The Doctor’ is the kind of character – because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the ‘Doctor’- when you’re there, you’re in it a...

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent...

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became ‘Timothy Green.’

But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent,...

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method