The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don’t move fast, but I just keep moving.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

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

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.