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Daily Inspiration Quote by Ron Glass

"In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there"

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Ron Glass is describing a kind of acting pleasure that reads almost suspiciously like ease, and that’s precisely the point: he’s reframing “difficulty” as a production problem, not a personal struggle. The line is quietly radical in an industry that loves the myth of suffering-for-art. Glass isn’t bragging about range or method; he’s saying the character fits like a well-cut jacket. When he “doesn’t perceive difficulty,” he’s signaling alignment - taste, temperament, maybe even ethics - rather than virtuosity.

The subtext is collaborative. “How do we get there” shifts authorship away from the solitary actor and toward the machinery around him: writers shaping intention, directors calibrating tone, editors choosing emphasis, scene partners building rhythm. He’s nudging us to see performance not as conjuring from nothing, but as arriving at a destination together, with the character already legible in the blueprint. That “we” is generous, but it’s also tactical: it protects the work from ego and from the expectation that great acting must look like agony.

Context matters because Glass often played characters defined by composure and intelligence; his best roles radiate control rather than chaos. In that light, his comment reads as an artistic philosophy: when you genuinely enjoy a character, the labor doesn’t vanish, it becomes invisible. The challenge migrates to precision - the route, not the destination.

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Glass, Ron. (n.d.). In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-the-character-itself-i-cant-really-116289/

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Glass, Ron. "In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-the-character-itself-i-cant-really-116289/.

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"In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-terms-of-the-character-itself-i-cant-really-116289/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Ron Glass (born July 10, 1945) is a Actor from USA.

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