Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

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.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.