I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot e….

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget..

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid..

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show..

Character is a wish for a perfect education..

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in..

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might g….

And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there does not exist an art of the kind which can impl….

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills..

I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voic….

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great natio….

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams..

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understandin….

For things to change, we must change..

I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional char….

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any c….

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head..

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions durin….

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actor….

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love..

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an acc….