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I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop. -- Will Gluck
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character. -- Dwight L. Moody
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution. -- Alice McDermott
All my characters have playlists. -- Michael K. Williams
Character actors have a long shelf life. -- Dennis Christopher
I love playing characters that have secrets. -- Cynthia Watros
I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. -- Christian Bale
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. -- Paul Newman
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. -- George R. R. Martin
I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them. -- Robert Kirkman
I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks. -- Eva Green
I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life. -- Penelope Wilton
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. -- Dylan Moran
I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play. -- Steve Buscemi
You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character. -- Robert Goulet
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. -- Mike White
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing. -- Marshall Allman
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life. -- Alexia Fast
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. -- Zoe Kazan
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I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life. -- Vittorio Grigolo
Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character. -- Myles Munroe
Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool. -- Josie Maran
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges. -- Walter Annenberg
Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character. -- Elizabeth Moon
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. -- Mae Whitman
Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name. -- Mindy Kaling
Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work. -- Zig Ziglar
We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality. -- Richard Meier
It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him. -- Michael Shanks
Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character. -- Chris Weitz
There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away. -- Khandi Alexander
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! -- Jasper Fforde
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. -- Matthew Arnold
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished. -- Bob Goff
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. -- Carl von Clausewitz
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? -- Ann Radcliffe
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. -- Matthew Arnold
When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on... -- Jazmine Sullivan
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over. -- Will Hobbs
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture. -- Patrick Demarchelier
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. -- James Mill
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble -- Beth Henley
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. -- Beth Henley
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day. -- Catherine Deneuve
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character. -- Jacqueline McKenzie
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. -- Wilhelm Wundt
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult. -- Michael Bond
Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly. -- Toks Olagundoye
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character. -- Helen Keller
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. -- Henry Fairfield Osborn
Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out. -- Judy Parfitt
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler -- Samuel Morse
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler. -- Samuel Morse
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. -- Michael Bassey
It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing. -- Scott Snyder
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it. -- Shawn Ashmore
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is. -- Steven Hatfill
I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook. -- Colin Trevorrow

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