My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

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

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.

I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

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

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.