“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.” WayActorsDifficultWalksRolesEmotionalResponseAffectedRobotsInnateEmotional Response Author:Kristanna Loken
“The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.” ArtBigsLinesSimpleRolesCreativityInfluenceEmotionalImpactSimplicityBritishPrimariesColourNativeCurvesColumbiaGraciousnessBritish Columbia Author:Joe Average
“The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.” PersonsImportantSometimesDonePlayTalkingRolesEmotionalActivityEatingCooksJournalistReceivingChefBeing DoneDiners Author:Ferran Adria
“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.” PeoplePlayGivenFunBrainRolesWorryEconomicEmotionalQuietFinding YourselfPrecisionLasersOutburstQuiet PeopleBrain DeadEmotional Outbursts Author:Damian Lewis
“If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.” IfsKnowsRealPlayOrderUniverseActingRolesEmotionalVulnerabilityThemeTemporaryAvailability Author:DJ Qualls
“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.” PeopleWholeCharacterActionDecisionRolesEmotionalCreatingPagesResponsibleBreathingCommitteesAnimatedArcsSmall PartsMaking DecisionsAnimated Movies Author:Andy Serkis
“Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.” RolesEmotionalConnectionsAvailableLeadership Roles Author:Brené Brown
“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.” ChildrenLittlesImportantEnoughPlayMotherNextFatherParentMoralRolesSuccessfulToo MuchGenerationsEconomicCenturyEmotionalKeysTrainingAffectionSensitivityNext GenerationUpbringingChild Rearing Author:Sandra Scarr
“SpongeBob is a good role model as far as imaginary creatures go. He works hard and his emotional highs are very high, he's either giddy or utterly devastating and crying like a lawnsprinkler... SpongeBob is bipolar.” HardRolesCryEmotionalHard WorkCreaturesModelsRole ModelsImaginaryBipolarGiddyGood Role Models Author:Tom Kenny
“When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and large, the more roles, the greater the happiness. Parents were happier than nonparents, and workers were happier than nonworkers. Married people were much happier than unmarried people. Married people were generally at the top of the emotional totem pole.” PeopleMenCountryHappinessFoundFeltParentWorkRolesGreaterEmotionalMarriedMen And WomenWorkersResearchersUnmarriedTotemsJugglers Author:Faye J Crosby
“I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.” KindHardMotherArtistBitsSidesRolesFashionEmotionalHandleDancerTraveledPistolsHyperMellowStepfathersHard To Handle Author:Tig Notaro
“Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.” PeopleBeautifulRolesEmotionalWarmInviting Author:Moby
“The role of the opposition leader differs from that of the chancellor. If this government is to be successful, I have to take the emotional state of all partners into account. Besides, the Social Democrats didn't exactly present me with the motto "Let us dare to have more freedom" on a silver platter.” IfsStatesGovernmentSocialLeaderRolesSuccessfulEmotionalAccountsDemocratDarePartnersBeing SuccessfulOppositionSilverMottoSilver Platter Author:Angela Merkel
“I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.” PeopleWayTryingIdeasStoriesRolesAudienceEmotionalCinemaPerforming Author:Joe Wright
“Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.” PlayDifficultRolesEmotionalDegreesExposure Author:Ian McLeod
“I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.” RomanceChallengesRolesEmotionalProudPeriodsTerritorySingularity Author:Bipasha Basu
“I didn't want to be around anybody because it was just too much for my brain. But, as an actress, you hope you get those meaty roles that push you into the extremities of that psychology. I like doing independent films because there's more room for you to be creative, and the director allowed me to just go wherever I needed to go. It was emotional. I had to cry a lot.” WantFilmRoomsBrainRolesCreativePsychologyToo MuchCryEmotionalNeededDirectorsIndependentActressesBe CreativeIndependent FilmExtremity Author:Tinsel Korey
“I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.” ThinkingKnowsHumansKindRealWholeCharacterActingRolesConditionsEmotionalHugeFindingsTransformationNotionStorytellingArtisticHuman ConditionLarger Than LifeMagnifyingHuman PsycheAmplification Author:Andy Serkis
“A human being having a full emotional conversation with a dog is funny, innately. It's one of those things where you get in a scene and you always go for what is the best joke, and a talking dog for some reason, whatever he says, is hilarious." (about his role wiht a talking dog in the forthcoming MEN IN BLACK sequel.” MenHumansReasonBlackHuman BeingsTalkingRolesDogEmotionalSceneConversationJokesSequelsForthcoming Author:Will Smith
“Having a partner who is your wife traveling with you can be great. We each have our roles in the work and then can help each other out on the emotional front when things get stressful, which they are.” HelpingRolesWifeFrontsEmotionalPartnersStressfulHelping Each Other Author:Peter Menzel
“It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.” PersonsRealBitsChanceRolesEmotionalMakeupGlamourGlamorousReal Person Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.” WayLooksChildrenLightAbleSpiritCertainParentUnderstandingLevelsRolesEmotionalEvolutionApproachConsciousAll ThingsRaisedObsessionSpotsMaturityIntegrationFixing Author:Shefali Tsabary
“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.” WorldIdeasUseTodayFormForcePowerfulRolesCasesStruggleSunInfluenceMovementEmotionalConflictTerrorismFactorsRevolutionaryVietnamQualifiedWorld TodayNature Of ManDissidentsAbout Success Author:William J. Duiker
“With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.” IfsCharacterBigsSchoolPainEasyActingRolesEmotionalCarefulAppropriateBe CarefulExploits Author:Laura Linney
“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.” DoneRolesComedyEmotionalDramaDemandDraining Author:Sean Penn