Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.