Character Quotes

“I'm always interested in the moral ambiguity of a character.”

“I think being a character actor is a little like being a chameleon.”

“Writers must be fair and remember even bad characters have a good side.”

“I want people to remember me as a full-on entertainer and a good person.”

“The anal character is distinguished by a special combination of three qualities: orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy.”

“We are justified in concluding that the constitutional factor in the formation of character is the strength of the pre-genital instincts.”

“A man who can be a hero to his valet must have a great deal of the valet in him.”

“It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions, actions, and character of others.”

“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.”

“Repentance is not a single act, but a habit, a state of mind.”

“I like to play characters who are not so heroic.”

“What you are in private, that you are.”

“Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than most any other four years of college work.”

“Self-control is the root of all the virtues.”

“The first step toward greatness is to be honest.”

“What I like about the character is that he's a normal person who's been thrown into this situation.”

“No one can be a good citizen who is not a good man.”

“A man is known by the company he keeps.”

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

“I know that I'm a decent human being and as far as I'm concerned, I've never looked down on anybody.”