The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.