He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have. - Anthony Bourdain

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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.― Charlotte Brontë

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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. ― Marilyn Monroe

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I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

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Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

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Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

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I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

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