Character quotes

“How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.”
Harold Ramis

“Brando was deeply rebellious against the bourgeois spirit, the over-ordering of life. Dean represented the release of anger against parents, resentment at the failure of parents to understand. Brando was happily arrogant, a free spirit. Dean was sad and sulky, you kept
expecting him to cry. De Niro is a number of things all at once. There are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Elia Kazan On Marlon Brando, James Dean, Robert De Niro

“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”
Loretta Young

“Bryant, Jillian Edith. Nationality: British. Born: 1938, under the sign of Pisces. Occupation: Assistant to military attaché... British Embassy, Jakarta. Former postings: Brussels, Singapore. Little religious feeling, yet has a reverence for life. This is a spirit like a wavering flame which only needs care to burn high. If this does not happen,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan

“When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.”
Kathy Najimy

“You may have my body, breasts, and boyfriend, but you are not me.”

Katherine Heigl - Alexia Wheaton

“Every thriller needs a good bad guy; without a bad guy, there's no thriller.”
Michael Eklund

“Everyone has a part of themselves they hide. Even from the people they love most.”
Sally Field - Aunt May

“Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.”
Jacqueline Bisset

“I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar

“You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe.”
Robert Patrick

“The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.”
Tim Roth

“I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.”
Anthony Minghella

“I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few ever became any qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
John Lithgow - Lord John Whorfin

“You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Sirius Black

As I expected. "Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way."

Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

“I drink because I am a sensitive and highly strong person.”
Goldie Hawn - Elise Elliot Atchison

“Don't let the situation change you. Change it.”
Jackie Chan - Keung

“- Crawl: You have got charisma!
- Becca: What's that?
- Crawl: It's a special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires allegiance and devotion.”

Pauly Shore - Crawl
Carla Gugino - Rebecca Warner

“He's a killing machine. There is no way he can be indicted or tried in open court, or any court. He cannot be processed, interviewed, charged with a crime, or copped out as a psycho. His picture cannot appear in any newspaper. As far as the world is concerned, sir, Aaron Hallum doesn't exist.”

Mark Pellegrino - Dale Hewitt

“The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.”
Maurice Chevalier

“Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.”
Jeff Bridges

“Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”
Peter Greenaway