Asghar Farhadi Quotes

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

I think that's the magic of any part - unravelling the mystery of what kind of person your guy is based on the words he says and the actions that he does.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

Character is the plot in many ways

The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Personality, too, is destiny.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Often your face is your autobiography

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.