According to one account, the Gekko character was a " straight lift " from the real world junk-bond dealer Michael Milkin, who later pled guilty to felony charges for violating securities laws.

In February, 2012, following his return to the character of financial criminal Gordon Gekko, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a public service announcement video of Michael Douglas calling on viewers to report financial crime.

* Gordon Gekko, fictional character in Wall Street played by Michael Dogulas

Gordon Gekko is a fictional character, the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall Street and the antihero of its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both directed by Oliver Stone.

In 2008, Gordon Gekko was named the fourth richest fictional character by Forbes who attributed him with US $ 8. 5 billion.

On October 8, 2008, the character was referenced in a speech by the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his speech " The Children of Gordon Gekko " concerning the Financial crisis of 2007-2010.

* In the UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the main character Derek Trotter sees the film ' Wall Street ' and tries to dress like Gordon Gekko even commenting, ' I've got Gordon Gekko braces '.

* In the US television series The Office, BJ Novak's character Ryan Howard dresses up as Gordon Gekko in the fifth episode of the fifth season, Employee Transfer.

Notwithstanding the popular cultural significance of the character ( and the wide repetition of this particular quotation ), Gekko never actually uttered the words " Greed is Good " in the original Wall Street film, although the trailers for the film featured a montage of edited scenes that resulted in the phrase being heard as such.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.

Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

This is what necessitates the nonsystematic character of his astronomy.

One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.

Trevelyan is militantly sure of the superiority of English institutions and character over those of other peoples.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.

I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.

For what Sam Rayburn's life in this House teaches us is that loyalty and character are not divisive and there is no such thing as being for your country and neglecting your district.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The theory behind this is, of course, fundamentalist in character.

The theory claims to show by analysis that when we say, `` That is good '', we do not mean to assert a character of the subject of which we are thinking.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

No one seriously contends, of course, that the domineering wife is, sexually speaking, a new character in our world.

The vast industrial interests caught up in the Selden suit, as well as the complex character of the automotive art, encouraged both sides to exploit `` every possible chance '' for or against the patent, said Parker.

" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.

Also, in " The Erymanthian Boar ", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937.

In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

Mike Judge was not credited as a producer of this series and has said he was not involved with it at all, except to give permission for the use of the character.

Kant said that philosophy's proper enquiry is not about what is out there in reality, but rather about the character and foundations of experience itself.

J. Brooking Rowe, writing in 1895, states that the tomb was re-erected in 1890 under the direction of Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument.

In episode 73, season 4, entitled Working for Caligula of Two and a Half Men, the character of Berta said " I'm working for Caligula ," while picking up after Charlie who has resumed his hedonistic lifestyle after his brother Alan moved out.

The Sourcebooks have been said to provide important insights into the character and quality of the decisions that led to the production of DSM-IV, and hence the scientific credibility of contemporary psychiatric classification.

It cannot be said with certainty from where the megalithic culture of Korea originated, and therefore it is difficult to define its true cultural character.

Emotional dispositions are also comparable to character traits, where someone may be said to be generally disposed to experience certain emotions.

George Lucas said that he based the Han Solo character in Star Wars on Coppola.

Opinions differed over the origins of folk music: it was said by some to be art music changed and probably debased by oral transmission, by others to reflect the character of the race that produced it.

Just weeks before his death Morgan said that he did not want to continue playing the role of Father Ted for fear of being typecast: " I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years.

" Bernadette Peters quoted Sondheim on the character of " Sally ": " He said early on that is off balance, to put it mildly.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

It has been said that audience members would get so boisterous in the boxes, that actors would sometimes break character and yell something such as, “ keep it down in there !” On the contrary, there were audience members who could not physically handle the brutality of the actions taking place on stage.

On these changes, Carr said: " The Office of the Governor should be less associated with pomp and ceremony, less encumbered by anachronistic protocol, more in tune with the character of the people.

Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Hawks said of Bacall: " Bogie fell in love with the character she played, so she had to keep playing it the rest of her life.

Humphry Davy said of him that " Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical mechanic form a very erroneous idea of his character ; he was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist, and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union of them for practical application ".

" I have said enough to put the character of Anglo-American civilization in its true light.