36 Movie Quotes about Character (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: April 12, 2025

Memorable quotes about character, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 We are not dressed in gold and fine linen. Strength and honor are our clothing.

Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora in The Ten Commandments (1956)

22 He can be a pretty good guy. And then other times he can be... But why kick? You got to take the bad with the good.

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The Big Heat (1953)

23 Aristotle's solution was simple and radical. He said, Plot is character. Forget psychology. Forget the inside of men's heads. Judge them by their actions.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

24 I can't abide them kind. You know, you see them in the tavern, you know, tramps and drunk teamsters and crazed miners, you know, sporting their pistols and acting like they was bad men, but without any sand or character. Not even any bad character.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

25 Say, why don't you read his character? Maybe he's right.

Stan Laurel as Stan in A Chump at Oxford

26 He's gonna be a good man. Good spread to his shoulders. Head works, too.

John Wayne as Hondo Lane in Hondo (1953)

27 It's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey.

Quote from Scent of a Woman (1992)

28 Besides, you have more character now, more experience, more, uh... more everything.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

29 A born loser. You want to know why you lost your wife? Because you've got no character, no guts. I'm surprised it didn't show up in the X-rays.

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

30 What are you trying to prove? -I'm not sure yet. Maybe that the girl has character. -They all have when they're caught. Never should have been paroled.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)