Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the…

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money… Let me give you…

— Ayn Rand

“The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”

— Ayn Rand

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old.…

— Wallace Stevens

The characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that…

— Thomas Hobbes

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

— Mencius

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard…

— Kevin Bacon

Batman and Blade were probably about neck-and-neck for me. If it was anything involving those two characters, I was there, man.

— Ray Fisher

I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will,…

— Idris Elba

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

— George Bernard Shaw

I love con-men characters in film.

— Simon Baker

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for…

— Nigel Cole