Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

We discover our character through decisions under pressure.

You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.

I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

Every character is a part of you and a part of the character that you are going to evolve into that you are not yet.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Figure out who you are.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.