In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

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