Character Quotes

You don’t get to be a jerk just because you’re skilled.

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family.

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.