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“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Diego Luna

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

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Author:Alessandro Nivola

“For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.”

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Author:Frances O'Connor

“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.”

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Author:Stephanie Leonidas

“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.”

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Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.”

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Author:Audrina Patridge

“As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

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Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”

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Author:Lance Reddick

“On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.”

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Author:Ron Rash

“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”

Way Different Play Character Darkness Lightness

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.”

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Author:Rachael Taylor

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

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Author:Tate Taylor

“As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for one night, we will begin to rekindle that common spark that brought us here from 50 different states and widely diverging backgrounds to serve the public good.”

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Author:Mark Udall

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.”

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Author:Zachary Levi

“There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.”

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Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.”

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Author:Grant Morrison

“Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.”

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Author:Ian McShane

“I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.”

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Author:Howard Hawks

“A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.”

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Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!”

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Author:Booboo Stewart

“Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.”

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Author:Bonnie Wright

“A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”

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Author:Daniel Yankelovich

“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”

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Author:Greg Bryk

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different”

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Book:The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Source: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

“I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“I think you have to be flexible above all as an actor; different characters have different demands, actors that you work with are different in their approach, or how you get along or don't get along with them.”

Thinking Different Character Actors Demand Approach Flexible Different Characters

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have. Setting up different characters in different relationships is always helpful as you move forward.”

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Author:Rob McElhenney

“A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way, and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest. If you're writing something fantastical, it can be a really deadly choice because your story already has elements that can seem dreamlike.”

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Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.”

Thinking Different Character Speak Voice Different Voices

Author:Guy Ritchie

“Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.”

Different Character Directors

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

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Author:Keri Russell

“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.”

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Author:Anna Kendrick

“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.”

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Author:Emraan Hashmi

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Ifs Different Character Sides Goal Results Achieve Drama Conflict Stakes Both Sides Unyielding

Book:How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

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Author:Jonathan Raban

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