Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Helps

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

Arthur Helps

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Arthur Helps

A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

Armie Hammer

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

Apolo Ohno

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

Antonio Banderas

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Antonio Banderas

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

Charles Babbage

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Channing Tatum

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

Channing Tatum

I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.

Channing Tatum

You don't need to like any of the characters, as long as you can understand why and where they're from. Why do you need to like any of the characters in the movie? That's not how life is. You don't like everyone that you meet.

Channing Tatum

You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

Channing Tatum

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

Channing Tatum

There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.

Alanna Ubach

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

Blair Underwood

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.

Blake Lively

For me, I really feel like a character when I look like them.

Blaise Pascal

A jester, a bad character.

Billy Boyd

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

Billie Jean King

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.

Billy Bob Thornton

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.

Billy Bob Thornton

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Billy Bob Thornton

Every character I play is me, always has been.

Billy Bob Thornton

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Billy Bob Thornton

As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.

Billy Bob Thornton

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Billy Bob Thornton

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Bill Hader

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Bill Hybels

Our conduct will never change God's character.

Kevin Zegers

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

Chris Farley

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