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Quote by Jessica Brown Findlay

“Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.”

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British actress born on September 14, 1989. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Lady Sybil Crawley in the British TV series 'Downton Abbey', which earned her multiple award nominations. more

“What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't play a character unless there are elements of human behaviour that you yourself understand. I was really struck by how Tim Burton would like to sit and chat about you... or question things which then you had never thought about. It is a good thing to always step back a bit with things like that. But I try my damned hardest to learn something from everything I do.”

Trying Important Character Good Things

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“I really enjoy auditions anyway because I think that even if you come out of them, and you go in once and it never goes anywhere, there is something that you bring out of it or a note that will come back to your agent and that's the way you learn.”

Thinking Enjoy

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.”

Thinking Kind Long Remember Universe Childhood Poet Poetic Irrational

Author:Guy Maddin

“Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters stand in for everybody, so actions take on fairytale significance. And the writing has to be pared down to represent people as types, too.”

People Writing Character Action Film Silent Significance Fairytale

Author:Guy Maddin

“I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's a big difference - people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.”

People Thinking Kind Dream Look Up Exaggeration Melodrama

Author:Guy Maddin

“I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry for so long and do ridiculous things in front of strangers, you sort of break down any barriers, you can't be embarrassed.”

Thinking Long Running Film Break Cry Horror Stranger Ridiculous Barriers Scream Embarrassed Breaking Down Horror Film

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I think it's interesting playing characters who are flawed and make mistakes because we all have - no one's just one thing - no one is just bad or just good - so I like finding flawed characters and playing with their redeeming qualities, whether you play it outwardly or not. I think that one of the reasons I'm an actor is that I love people and I love finding out who they are and why they do the things they do, so it is fun to play those kinds of characters.”

People Thinking Kind Reason Character Fun Interesting Mistake Quality Making Mistakes Flawed

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I love Charlize Theron. I would love to have a career like Charlize Theron. I like Charlize Theron. She strikes me as being very down to earth, very cool, in addition to being extremely talented, and I think that's awesome.”

Thinking Earth Very Cool

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.”

People Thinking Writing Enough Whole Life

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the obvious theme of domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month is also about how men deal with their emotions. It's not just like who gets brutalized; sometimes it's women that are abusing men, too. I think it's just an opportunity for us to look at ourselves. How do we treat each other? Why do we treat each other that way?”

Thinking Men Kind Sometimes Opportunity Emotion Violence Awareness Ill Obvious Domestic Violence

Author:Malik Yoba

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