Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness..

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are..

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of div….

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that..

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that..

I don't know. I always love to find where a character's heart is, and by that I mean where they're intrinsically vulnerable, and to bring that out in….

When it's all said and done, I'm very, very glad to work in this business, but that's exactly what it is. It's a business, and I get to do the fun ha….

Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis..

One can acquire everything in solitude except character..

The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire c….

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, ….

I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' K….

I follow the rules until I go against them all..

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite o….

It is always about you for me..

I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there and I'm thinking about boo….

Reading about utopianism, and eventually creating characters with their own utopian ambitions, was the way I learned to live with being a pregnant pe….

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind.

There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I….

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the aud….

I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, b….