Character quotes

“What doesn't kill you defines you.”
Kim Dickens - Gloria Sullivan

“- Colonel Hugh Pickering: Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
- Professor Henry Higgins: Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
- Colonel Hugh Pickering: Yes, very frequently.
- Professor Henry Higgins: Well, I haven't.”
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Colonel Hugh Pickering
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Corinne Jeffries: He's... weird.
- Miranda Jeffries: Mom... weirdness is not a criminal offense. If it were, you'd be serving a life sentence.”
Cybill Lynne Shepherd - Corinne Jeffries
Mary Stuart Masterson - Miranda Jeffries

“- Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
- Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.”

Ben Kingsley - Xavier Fitch
Michael Madsen - Preston Lennox

“I found how to achieve what I'd always wanted... To be the knife as well as the wound.”
John Malkovich - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Ted Pikul: You killed him. Are you going to kill me next?
- Allegra Geller: He was only a game character. I didn't like how he was messing with my mind.
- Ted Pikul: You didn't like that, so you killed him?
- Allegra Geller: He's only a game character!”
Jude Law - Ted Pikul
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Allegra Geller

“Doctor Talbot says that you're an extrovert and I'm an introvert.”

Jean Harlow - Kitty Packard

“It's bad to kill. Guns kill. And you don't have to be a gun. You are what you choose to be. You choose. Choose.”

Eli Marienthal - Hogarth Hughes

“- Ralph: They are looking for your type for a movie.
- Doris: What's my type?
- Ralph: Well, you know, your type! Your type, Irishy, Jewishy, paranoid.”
Barry Miller - Ralph
Maureen Teefy - Doris

“You're a good conversationalist; but, there's something of the kindergarten teacher about you. Which is really nice; but, the guys you like also tend to be on the ethereal side and get pretty far away from any physicality.”

Kate Beckinsale - Charlotte

“Don't worry about it. They always hire bums like me for jobs like this.”

Michael Paré - Tom Cody

“Jane, you're a strange and almost unearthly thing.”
William Hurt - Rochester

“You think you're easy? Compared to what, the Hundred Years' War?”
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“Mr. Brubaker, I've been studying you since you first come in. And it's come clear to me that you are one weird fucking individual. I haven't got you figured out yet - whether you're a good thing or a bad one.”
Keith David - Larry Lee Bullen

“- Mace: You're some piece of work, Lenny Nero. You're just calmly backstroking along in the big toilet bowl and somehow you never let it touch you. I mean, between working vice and your current so-called occupation, you must have seen every kind of perversion. But you're just like... some teflon man, you still come out this goofball romantic.
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Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.”
Dame Judi Dench - Iris Murdoch

“- Charlotte: He's such a nerd!
- Kay: He's not a nerd! Where did you ever come up with that word?
- Charlotte: Just came out of my lips when I met him! Nerd! Just like that.”
Claire Trevor - Charlotte
Sally Field - Kay

“- Gin: I'm not who you think I am, Mac.
- Mac: I hope not. For your sake.”
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gin
Sir Sean Connery - Mac

“I just love naked women. It's a character flaw.”
Burt Reynolds - Congressman David Dilbeck

“I've always been a tequila man.”
Michael Paré - Tom Cody

- Detective Hayden: To be perfectly frank, Michael, you were described as, uh... What was that word they used, Sergeant?
- Martin: Frightening.
- Detective Hayden: Frightening, and strange and weird. "Freak" came up a couple times.
Frank Langella - Detective Hayden
Victor Ertmanis - Martin

“- Kevin: Who talked?
- Max: It wasn't me, Han Solo, Zach got the information from Jinx.
- Kevin: Max... I am not Han Solo. You are not Luke Skywalker. There's no Empire. There's no Force and there's no Dark Side!”
Tate Donovan - Kevin Donaldson
Joaquin Phoenix - Max

“- Barry Corman: You two clowns leave while I get into character.
- Michael Chapman: What character, all you got to do is swallow.”
David Krumholtz - Barry Corman
Michael J. Fox - Michael Chapman

“Walk in with a big laugh. Don't look worried. Start off with a couple of your good stories to lighten things up. It's not what you say, it's how you say it - because personality always wins the day.”
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman