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“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.”

Kind I Can Character Helping Bigs Able Jobs Stuff Focus One Thing Listening Findings Creating Help Me Consistent Listening To Music Palette Headphones

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.”

Way Heart Character Actors Emotion Honest Scene Directors Sitting Intense Bridges Describing Good Way Sitting Down Brutally Honest

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.”

Ifs Character Beautiful Succeed

Author:Sarah Silverman

“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.”

Littles Two Real Character Bits Term Hours Comedy Minutes Little Bit News Stuck Extras Plot Endearment Real Character Terms Of Endearment Fast Times

Author:Judd Apatow

“Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end.”

Thinking Should Important Ends Moments Character Stories Minutes Six Losing Seven Editing

Author:Judd Apatow

“As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral. They will be projecting their thoughts and their actions onto the main character.”

Play Character Action Audience Hero Main Characters

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.”

Thinking Different Character Stories Break Good Story

Author:Keri Russell

“I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.”

Thinking Character Stories Growth Love Is Catalyst

Author:Keri Russell

“I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.”

Character Stories Adore Intriguing

Author:Keri Russell

“The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played. The main character is very minamalistic. That's what works in this digital age.”

Character Age Acting Style Digital Contrast Digital Age Main Characters

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.”

Ifs Way Writing Ends Matter Character Pieces Great Things Artifice

Author:Jenny Hval

“Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.”

Knows Character Process Talking Creative Stage Narrative Creative Process Arcs Brainstorming

Author:Jenna Bush

“I'll never forget my high school acting teacher, Anthony Abeson, who said, "It starts with the shoes." When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them? If I'm going to put on a dress for a role - I don't care if it's the hardest dress to put on - I have to put the shoes on first. The physicality leads me to the character.”

“You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.”

Thinking Way Character Sides Audience Best Way

Author:Anna Kendrick

“With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.”

People Different Character Involved Territory Entering New Territory

Author:Anna Kendrick

“I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.”

Real Character Feelings Fun Mirrors Shoes Hats Pants Costumes Funky Baggy Pants

Author:Michael Jackson

“I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.”

Thinking Way Character Problem Certain My Own Situation Serious Outsiders Going To Work Craziness

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.”

Character Use Used Father Difficult Levels Situation Darkness Victory Stronger Disappointment Ministry Daddy Difficult Situations

Author:Joel Osteen

“The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”

World Character Able Known Democracy Rose Democratic Pace Aristocracy

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.”

Should Important Matter Character Hands Government Care Chance Opinion Depends Important Things Take Care Russia Philanthropy Treasury Leftovers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.”

Way Character Form Accepting Bases Colour Stable Unstable Instability Dealing With It

Author:Bridget Riley

“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.”

Soul Character Artist Results Knowing Creating Draws Depth Photograph Visible Mask Copies Portraits Portraiture

Author:Igor Babailov

“I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.”

Art Ideas Character Seems Sea Dangerous Objects Fine Art Is Sail Fine Arts

Author:Grayson Perry

“The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.”

Character Passion Unique Visuals Costumes

Author:Lou Ferrigno

“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.”

Thinking States Character Able Mistake Audience Position Periods Smart Golden Cinema Classic Misconception

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.”

Character Stories Use Color Fine

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.”

World Children Art Play Character Body Motivation Space Teach Stage Design Draws Roots Folks Traditional Celebrate Masterpiece Geometry Flutes

Book:Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

Source: Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics

“To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one thing if [ a celebrity ] has an incredible character and you're really going to be able to delve into their personality – that's great. But you can never get real purity if people have been spoiled by the camera and don't trust you. I like feeling that I'm able to be a voice for those people who aren't famous, the people that don't have the great opportunities.”

“You got to constantly be in character.”

Character

Author:Tupac Shakur

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”

Way Doe Book Ends Character Stories Imagination Forever Goes On Bland

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.”

Way Character Winning Left Successful Football Personality Mark Coaches Former Phrases Charisma Distinctive Catchy Dames Football Coach Notre Dame Dynamic Personality

Author:Carl Pohlad

“So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'”

People Writing Book Character Research Letters Possession Awful Related Imperfect

Author:Simon Winchester

“At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

Long Character Lines Shapes Window Long Lines

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit”

Humans Character Spirit Human Beings Perfect Samurai

Author:Yamaoka Tesshu

“The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.”

Men Giving Mean Doe Ideas Character Emotional Protect Daughter Fulfilling Cables

Author:Tom Brevoort

“But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a "serious" filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Character America Talking Serious Brother Independent Filmmaker Captains Mistaken Raccoons

Author:James Gunn

“An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.”

Ifs Two Character Beautiful Film Certain Girl Couple Scene Lucky Kissing Intense Guarantees Ingredients Grey Fabulous Twists Beautiful Girl

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.”

Feels Should Character Passive

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.”

People Different Character Acting Roles Drama Perception Relate Interpretation Grey Flawed Concealing

Author:Emraan Hashmi

“It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.”

Years Hard Play Character Hands Seems Pity Continuing

Author:Donald Pleasence

“Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.”

Character Romance Fun Perfect Mystery Reader Gay Murder Intelligent Witty Educated Prose Over The Top

Author:Rhys Bowen

“I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.”

Ideas Character Strong Fiction Television Female Science Fiction Branches Strong Women Bizarre Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Steven Moffat

“All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.”

Doe Character Can Do Prove Times Like These

Author:Johann Gottfried Seume

“We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.”

Ifs Knows World Love Should Wells Reason Character Might Love Is Quality Special Mets Demand Should Have Charm Wiser Mistress Being In Love Kate Paragon

Book:The history of Henry Esmond, esq

Source: The history of Henry Esmond, esq

“The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.”

May Persons Book Character Reading Pleasure Quality Poet Flower Fool Delight Stupidity Silly Sincere Masterpiece Cleverness Freshness Sincere Love Picking Flowers Silly Person

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.”

World Want Character Passion Wise Honor Command Chains Rely Appetite Resisting Fear Not Polished

Author:Horace

“The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.”

Character Shapes Intellect Noses Length Strings Tape Scope Physiognomy

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.”

Ifs Thinking Character Sin Cry Consequence Insult Hypocrisy Avert Consequences Of Sin

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.”

People Ifs Thinking Enough Character Motivation Acting Too Much Profession Marvelous Enough Time

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.”

People Should Character Fall Found Judging Acquaintance Cautious Bad People

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

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