One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?