Tough Character Quotes

He’s a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role. Whilst I'm still young and I still have the looks, I want to take the helm and be a renegade cop, or something like that. He's got to have a bit of an edge, but that would be nice.

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary.