I despise those prick actors who say, “I was in character,” and “I became the character,” and all that stuff. It’s hideous. It’s just masturbation at the highest level.
I am always keen to play characters that are complicated and who represent real women and not just there to serve a man’s story. I want the characters I play to be truthful to the women I know. And the person I am.
Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.[ὅτι τοσούτου ἄξιος ἕκαστόςἐστιν, ὅσου ἄξιά ἐστι ταῦτα περὶ ἃ ἐσπούδακεν.]
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Don’t even wait until you’ve lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
Character in matters great and small consists in a man steadily pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Anytime you approach a new season of any show it’s fun because you have a newfound history with these characters.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
A small but honest mind is less wearisome in the end than a great but crooked one.[Peu d’esprit avec de la droiture ennuie moins, à la longue, que beaucoup d’esprit avec du travers.]
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.[Gerade in Kleinigkeiten, als bei welchen der Mensch sich nicht zusammennimmt, zeigt er seinen Charakter.]
