When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.
Billy Graham that the world saw on television or saw on the big screen was the same Billy Graham that we saw at home. He wasn't two people.
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.
I can say I know Linda McMahon quite well, yet they've only been brief encounters going all the way back to 1985 when I first worked for WWF/WWE. I started in 1984, but I don't recall meeting her until 1985. I can say this much: Linda McMahon has never changed. I think of few women in my lifetime that I respect more than her.
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.
Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.
Lou Grant was pretty much always Lou Grant.
