Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

Though I'm considered a leading man, I still consider myself a character actor. Because acting, to me, is creating a character, not playing the same thing all the time.

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

I don't shoot two films at the same time. I finish one character and get into another character because I change my look for every film. It's difficult, but I enjoy doing that.

What is striking is how the reputation of the monarchy has gone up and down in my lifetime.

Once you watch any character for nine-and-half hours, be it good, bad or grey, you tend to attach yourself with it. You always feel for the character, even if he is a villain.

For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

In 'Brothers,' I am going into a zone that is something that I have not done. It's a very simple and desi character. It's also a character that I think a lot of people would not have expected me to do.

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

What a character wears and how it affects their mood and their movements has always been very important to me. A character's clothes, if they're truthful, can make audiences feel something.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

People will talk about character arcs, but you look at the character arc of C-3PO from 'Star Wars' to 'Return of the Jedi,' and it's a complete 180... he's not so much of a coward and a fussbudget.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

I have never lied on anyone to disrepute or sully their reputation for the sake of revenge.

Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

I can honestly say I've never thought for a second about whether a character reflects poorly on any group. All that matters to me is that the character is true to my belief in who he or she is.

I think as an actor... I don't like to compare a character to anybody else, just because I respect other people's work, and I want that character to have his own identity.

It wasn't until 'Double Take' that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.

I think it's hard to differentiate between your wrestling character and your real character - you kind of end up being both. I've always been my wrestling character in and out of the ring and in and out of the dressing room, and I was always really respected in the dressing room by the other wrestlers.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.

When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.

I`m lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I`m Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the truth that I sing in my raps align themselves with the policy of Bernie Sanders.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character. In six months, 192 shows, those things did happen. And the experience of that, the ability to stay in character, I feel like I've learned a great deal.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

There are some actors that want you to call them by their character's name and they have no relationship with you outside of the character. But I like to get to know who I'm working with so that we can relax together, and it's more fun.