"I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films"

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"

"I put heavy emphasis on the characters"

"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake"

"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them"

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold"

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way"

"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor"

"I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented"

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all"