#hara

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#acting #altogether #capacity #character #coercion

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#blood #blood pressure #character #character actor #disappeared

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#character #comes #director #directors #down

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#any #bad #character #clearly #good

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards. ↗

— Jay Pharoah

#clubs #out #say #standards #tv

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#believe #character #creating #difference #hope

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. ↗

— Plato

#grow #human #men #out #states

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#great #great things #i #john #john malkovich

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#best #character #depends #everything #happily

There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#index #sure #voice