A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We’re small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We’re not a pushover.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I am a tough guy.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.