Distinctive Trait Quotes

I think it is a blessing to be known by the name of your character. How many characters can we count on our fingertips? Not many. To be one of them is a big achievement.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

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There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

My dad was a unique person.

I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

I'm the guy on the corner that is slightly peculiar but fun and funky.

Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.

Lead singers, they're their own breed.

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.