"The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters"

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"

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

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