| 100% | REGAN | 5 | Character who said about her father, "Yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself" |
| 33% | SAMMALONE | 9 | Sitcom character who said "Not many people know this, but I happen to be famous" |
| 32% | MRED | 4 | TV character who says "You know I wouldn't talk in front of anyone but you" |
| 32% | TEDLASSO | 8 | TV character who said "Heck, you could fill two internets with what I don’t know about football" |
| 31% | KANYEWEST | 9 | About whom Obama said "He is a jackass. But he's talented" |
| 31% | FRASIER | 7 | Titular sitcom character who says, about an enemy, "Charm is the vicious grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine" |
| 29% | INDIAARIE | 9 | Songwriter who wrote "My mama said a lady ain't what she wears, but what she knows" |
| 29% | NEO | 3 | Movie character who says, "I know kung fu" |
| 28% | MADEA | 5 | Film character about whom Tyler Perry said "I just don't want to be her age playing her" |
| 28% | NEO | 3 | Keanu Reeves character who said "I know kung fu!" |
| 28% | ESME | 4 | Salinger character who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 28% | NEO | 3 | Keanu Reeves character who says, "I know kung fu" |
| 28% | REGAN | 5 | Character who refers to her father as “the lunatic king” |
| 27% | CARLYSIMON | 10 | Frequent collaborator of 42-Across who has said her song "You're So Vain" is not about him (2 wds.) |
| 27% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" |
| 27% | ESME | 4 | J.D. Salinger title character who says, "I prefer stories about squalor" |
| 27% | ASLAN | 5 | About whom Mr. Beaver says "He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion." |
| 26% | ABE | 3 | "Simpsons" character who said, "I'm an old man. I hate everything but Matlock!" |
| 26% | POGO | 4 | Old comics character who said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." |
| 26% | OTTO | 4 | “Simpsons” character who says, “They call ’em ‘fingers,’ but I never seen ’em ‘fing’” |
| 26% | POOH | 4 | Kids' character who says "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day" |
| 26% | ROMEO | 5 | Shakespeare title character who says, “My mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars” |
| 26% | DESDEMONA | 9 | Shakespearean character who says "His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love" |
| 26% | DIOR | 4 | Who said "A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting" |
| 26% | DONALDTR | 8 | Who said about himself "Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money" |
| 26% | BORE | 4 | One who talks only about himself, say |
| 25% | MRED | 4 | TV character who "will never speak unless he has something to say" |
| 25% | DRZHIVAGGO | 10 | Film character who says "I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it" |
| 25% | EEYORE | 6 | Kid-lit character who says "The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually" |
| 25% | BART | 4 | TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows" |