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It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect. -- Michael Hirst
No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character. -- Laura Carmichael
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. -- Ted Lange
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. -- Gus Van Sant
In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally. -- Michelle MacLaren
Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts. -- Suzanne Collins
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam. -- Aasif Mandvi
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette. -- Alafair Burke
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany. -- Morgan Brittany
Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character. -- David Cronenberg
I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character. -- Octavia Spencer
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him. -- Joe Cornish
The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something. -- Owain Yeoman
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else. -- Rowan Atkinson
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. -- Gene Wilder
Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me. -- Zachary Levi
Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead. -- Dabbs Greer
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. -- Charlie Munger
No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character. -- Laura Carmichael
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. -- Matthew Macfadyen
When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths. -- Jon Hurwitz
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. -- Imelda Staunton
I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys. -- Julie Taymor
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. -- Tryon Edwards
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. -- Tryon Edwards
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. -- Michael Burgess
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. -- Michael Burgess
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? -- Imelda Staunton
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him. -- William Sanderson
My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman. -- Abdellatif Kechiche
I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces. -- Berenice Bejo
Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction. -- Andy Serkis
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. -- Fernando Pessoa
I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax. -- Michael Cera
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does. -- David Chase
I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader". Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter? -- Christian Cooke
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved. -- James Scott Bell

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