How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilience, and integrity in your response? Character isn't about being perfect or always doing the right thing. Character is how you respond to your own fail...
The wolf changes only his coat -- not his character.
Distance tests a horse's strength; time reveals a marls character.
The character of a man lies not in his body but in his soul.
Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer around, with memories and character formed by that previous experience, to warn people not to be irresponsible.
My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting ...
My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a s...
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly...
People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to...
When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-wh...
The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.
My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.
I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.
