Character quotes

“That's quite intolerable. It would be difficult enough at my age to be what I once was, but utterly impossible to be what I never was.”
Coral Browne - Alice Hargreaves

“I think you should know from the start that I am a full-charged nanny. I don't argue and I do not like to be argued with.”

Carol Gillies - Helga Von Haupt

“- Dr. Ben Sobel: Freud believed you're everyone in your dreams.
- Paul Vitti: Fuck Freud. After what you just told me, you know, I'm afraid to call my own mother on the phone!”
Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel
Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“She had the personality of a ZIP code in Kansas.”
Steve Martin - Bowfinger

“Then... you're telling me your rude behavior and total lack of respect for me is just your natural personality and not in any way related to undue stress?”
Helen Slater - Mary

“If I had a face like yours I'd try to make up for it with some sort of personality!”

Kenn Scott - Raphael

“Suppose your parents are unhappy with you. It's good for them. It develops character.”
Monty Woolley - Sheridan Whiteside

“- Orson Welles: So how big is this monstrosity?
- Herman Mankiewicz: The estate? Half the size of Rhode Island.
- Orson Welles: You're kidding?
- Herman Mankiewicz: No, it's the place God would have built if he had the money.”

Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz

“Everything I am, everything I could be is in that picture!”
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“Top five things I miss about Laura. One; sense of humor. Very dry, but it can also be warm and forgiving. And she's got one of the best all time laughs in the history of all time laughs, she laughs with her entire body. Two; she's got character. Or at least she had character before the Ian nightmare. She's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Cusack - Rob Gordon

“- Abe: Only creeps and crazy people go out on New Year's Eve.
- Ceil: Then you should definitely go out, Abe.”
Josh Mostel - Abe
Renée Lippin - Ceil

“That script of yours has all the right elements. I mean it's got good characters and a terrific story. I don't know if you agree with me but I think story is the most important element of a script.”
Martin Landau - Jack Roth

“I'm really a nice guy. If I had friends you could ask them.”
Eugene Levy - Walter Kornbluth

“- Eleanor Miller: Excuse me, sir, but you wouldn't want to marry Brittany. She's... Well, she's very difficult.
- Jeanette Miller: And she's not very tidy.
- Eleanor Miller: And her cooking is atrocious!
- Jeanette Miller: And she spends money like a drunken sailor!”

Janice Karman - Eleanor Miller
Janice Karman - Jeanette Miller

“- Raychel: You're like shy, but you're outgoing. You're insecure but your conceited. Then some things you're totally clueless and other things you get in like two fucking seconds. So I'm confused.
- Meg Kennedy: Is that supposed to be a compliment?
- Raychel: See, now you're like dissed but also flattered.”
Mariah Carey - Raychel
Mira Sorvino - Meg Kennedy

“- Peter Highman: I despise who you are on a cellular level.
- Ethan Tremblay: Okay, I've heard that before and I'm trying to work on it.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Peter Highman
Zach Galifianakis - Ethan Tremblay

“- Juno MacGuff: I think I'm in love with you.
- Paulie Bleeker: You mean as friends?
- Juno MacGuff: No... I mean for real. 'Cause you're, like, the coolest person I've ever met, and you don't even have to try, you know...
- Paulie Bleeker: I try really hard, actually.”
Ellen Page - Juno MacGuff
Michael Cera - Paulie Bleeker

“- Mayor John Pappas: You don't know what menschkeit means?
- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: No, I don't.
- Mayor John Pappas: Menschkeit, you know... something between men... it's about honor, and character... untranslatable. That's why it's Yiddish.”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas
John Cusack - Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun

“- Cyrus Paice: Wait a minute, Jack. All of a sudden you care? All of a sudden what are you, some fuckin' goodguy? Hmm? Hey, you're the bad brother, remember?
- Jack Carter: I know who I am.”
Mickey Rourke - Cyrus Paice
Sylvester Stallone - Jack Carter

“He doesn't have a home or people to care for. He's not afraid of anything, men least of all. He's fast and strong like a big wind. He can hear a hundred miles, and see a hundred miles underwater. He can hide in the shadow of a noon sun. He can be right behind you and you won't even know it til you're dead!”
Tina Majorino - Enola

“If you want me, Bruce, you've gotta take me as I am instead of trying to change me into something else.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Regina Lambert: You are actually quite sweet for a stars and bars company man, aren't you?
- Lewis Bartholomew: You've discovered my secret side Mrs. Lambert. Keep it under your hat. Boo!”
Thandie Newton - Regina Lambert
Mark Wahlberg - Lewis Bartholamew

Through the vicissitudes of wholly gratuitous genetic accidents, I was visited with extremely high intelligence. I was further blessed - or burdened, as it were - with certain physical traits that would suggest "good breeding". Now, in this proletarian stew which we laughingly call society, these attributes are not always advantageous.

Sir John Hurt - Douglas Benoit

“- Keaton: His name's Verbal. Verbal Kint.
- McManus: Verbal?
- Keaton: Yeah.
- Verbal: 'Roger', really. People say I talk too much.
- Hockney: Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut up.”
Gabriel Byrne - Keaton
Stephen Baldwin - McManus
Kevin Spacey - Verbal
Kevin Pollak - Hockney

“- Youa: You're funny.
- Walt Kowalski: I've been called a lot of things, but never funny.”
Choua Kue - Youa
Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski