Unassuming Character Quotes

'Normal bloke' is my style.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

I just try to be a regular dude.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

In regular life, I'm somebody pretty simple, pretty calm.

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.