Character quotes

“You are different, Tommy. Very different. And I've discovered it isn't only a difference in manner and outward appearances. It's a difference in basic character.”

Jean Harlow - Gwen Allen

“See, the only difference between a winner and a loser is character. Every man has a price to charge, and a price to pay. Yeah, I've paid mine in spades.”
Taylor Kitsch - Remy LeBeau

“- Duty Cop: Detailed description?
- Jessica Wilhern: Brown hair. Brown eyes. A unique... ly pleasant personality.”
John Voce - Duty Cop
Catherine O'Hara - Jessica Wilhern

“- Charlie Wilson: You're no James Bond.
- Gust Avrakotos: You're no Thomas Jefferson, either. Let's call it even.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

- Carl Showalter: You ever been to Minneapolis?
- Gaear Grimsrud: Nope.
- Carl Showalter: Would it... kill you to say something?
- Gaear Grimsrud: I did.
- Carl Showalter: "No". That's the first thing you've said in the last four hours. That's a fountain of conversation there, buddy. That's a geyser.
Steve Buscemi - Carl Showalter
Peter Stormare - Gaear Grimsrud

“You not only have a gifted mind, but you're also composed. You don't give in to your emotion. You think logically. Ben, you were born for this.”
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“Most people know nothing about themselves. Nothing. Their own real personality is a complete stranger to them.”

Alan Mowbray - Dr. Vengard

“You hung me out of a plane. You can tell a lot about a persons character by how they treat people they don't have to treat well.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Owen Davian

“You can tell a lot about a man by his profile. A certain strength of character, or lack thereof.”

Billy Zane - Colonel Graham

“You're Beauty and the Beast in one luscious Christmas gift pack.”

Danny DeVito - Penguin

“The geezer was so hard even his nightmares were scared of him.”

Danny Dyer - Frankie

“Mr. Marks, you were right about one thing. You are a CPA. A Certified Public Ass-hole!”
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom

“Look, let's just pretend that we're in Barcelona, and you're in art school, and I'm renting sailboats to tourists, and no one's a super hero and no one's a villain, we're just us.”
Jordana Brewster - Lucy Diamond

“Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others try to hide their beauty because they want the world to see something else.”
Michael Rady - Kostas

“- Tom Reagan: All in all not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count.
- Verna: You better hope they don't.”
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan
Marcia Gay Harden - Verna

“- Tommy Lucero: What do you see when you see me?
- Martha Durand: Oh, well, when I see you, I see nothing but trouble.”
Antonio Banderas - Tommy Lucero
Meg Ryan - Martha Durand

“You are a very interesting psychological phenomenon. And I think you're very sweet.”

Sandra Prinsloo - Kate Thompson

“- Pooch: The Pooch may lie, the Pooch may steal, the Pooch may...
- Jensen: The Pooch may refer to himself in the third person?
- Pooch: Occasionally, but the Pooch will not cheat.”
Columbus Short - Pooch
Chris Evans - Jensen

“- Dana Marschz: You can't let your ethnic narrow-mindedness stop your son from thriving in our culture.
- Mr. Marquez: I have to take exception to that characterization.”
Steve Coogan - Dana Marschz
Marco Rodríguez - Mr. Marquez

- Berdine: No one understands Bettina. Her screen persona is a brilliant comment on the socio-political structure of stardom.
- Florence "Chicklet" Forrest: You get all that from "The Pizza Waitress with Three Heads"? I guess we are the only ones watching the movie.
Danni Wheeler - Berdine
Lauren Ambrose - Florence 'Chicklet' Forrest

“- King Henry VIII: Since when are you a diplomat?
- Queen Katherine: I am my father's daughter.
- King Henry VIII: You are my wife. You are not my minister, you are not my chancellor, but my wife.”
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - King Henry VIII
Maria Doyle Kennedy - Queen Katherine

“Damn it, Bones, you're a doctor. You know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with a wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!”
William Shatner - James T. Kirk

“- Tom Baxter: Cecilia, it's clear how miserable you are with your husband. And if he hits you again, you tell me. I'd be forced to knock his teeth out.
- Cecilia: I don't think that'd be such a good idea. He's big.
- Tom Baxter: I'm sorry. It's written into my character to do it, so I do it.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter
Mia Farrow - Cecilia

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!”

Frank Finlay - Jacob Marley

“I don't know if HAL is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic, or just plain broken.”
Roy Scheider - Dr. Heywood Floyd