Richard C. Armitage Quotes

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.